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INSIDE OUR FORBIDDEN LOVE

Love isn’t always a fairytale. And Indian-born Anupam Sharma knows this all too well.

Anupam spent years fighting to make her parents back home accept her longterm relationship with a white Australian man. In the Hindu culture, it is traditional for women to be matched with a suitor from a young age, then get married and have children.

But the 33-year-old vet rejected her parents’ wishes for her to have an arranged marriage after moving to Australia

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