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Me too!

My parents thought it was a cool word, so they named me after it. There's 5 of us, and we all have different surnames. Hippy parents, man.




Wait, your name is literally Bron Gondwana? That must be a hell of a conversation starter.

I'd definitely bore you with tree talk though.


Legitimately is, it's been a challenge at time but pretty happy with it. Pity LeBron came along and stole my googlability


Welp, if you're ever in NZ and want to discuss the saltiness of the scientist who named southern beech "fake beech" (Nothofagus), I'm always keen :D


Made it to NZ for the first time in my life just over a year ago. Love it, definitely gotta get back

(and visit Les Mills in Auckland again of course... always nice to get to the place where my OTHER job came from)


Same first name presumably, JANET style?


Sadly, they weren't quite prescient enough to realise the importance of different initials, so we have to use TWO letters for card game scoresheets; but nah. Pity.




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