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Love is blue

By Delwyn Dickey . Image credit ROSE DAVIS/STUFF. 2018 may

They were saved from starvation and fell in love while they recovered in captivity on Waiheke Island. But there was an emotional dilemma for the little blue penguins at the heart of this love story when one was ready to be released but the other wasn’t.

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