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Leaving Australia
I came to Australia for the first time in 1963 and lived here happily for 8 years until my then husband decided we should return to UK. He controlled the money (as was usual back then), and so I had no choice. I cried and cried - and so did the children. We didn't want to go. When we left Sydney, all the friends that we had made out here turned up to see us off from Circular Quay. I had tied a lot of stockings together and my friends held one end and these stretched out as we gradually got underway. I held on for a long time but I finally had to let go. It broke my heart and I had to wait 50 years until I could finally return in 2017. I am home at last. Just wish I had applied for citizenship then so that I did not now have to wait to become fully resident here, as is now the situation.
