Word: tarita
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brando keeps his private life on Tahiti very secluded. He has two children by Tarita, who was a 19-year-old beauty in Mutiny on the Bounty. They live on Tahiti. "I see them on weekends," says their father. "They fly to Tetiaroa or I go to them. I don't think I will let them go to the States. As Tahitians, they are too trusting. They would be destroyed in the pace of life in the States...
Brando and Tarita are still good friends. Says Marlon, "I remember being furious with her because she fed so much candy and gum-so bad for the teeth-to the baby. She said to me, 'What can I do? He wants it.' Tahitians treat children as people who have legitimate wants and needs. None of this I-know-better-because-I'm-your-parent syndrome. I respect it. But I've learned not to try to go native mentally ... not to try to assume their mind frame. My first seven years as a child growing...
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