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Back when I was dating, one of my favourite things to do was to study the faces of my new boyfriends as I introduced them to my family for the first time.

There was my mum – a former skydiving instructor in her short shorts and singlet, chain-smoking for the entire population of Australia. There was dad – former actor (now a poet) with his long pony tail and eclectic Navajo jewellery.

And oh yes, there was Alf, our pet dingo.

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On paper, you probably couldn’t imagine anything more ‘Strayan (we even cooked our meat around the hills hoist), but what really confused people was that we were Turkish through and through. People didn’t know what to think, couldn’t figure out how to pigeonhole us.

“Your family is not what I was expecting,” I heard time and time again and my response was always the same.

“I know... that’s the way my parents planned it.”