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    everybody has a story

    Apr 05, 2020 3 minutes
    As told to Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

    RANA: My parents, who were in an arranged marriage, came to Australia in the early ’70s from India. I was born in Melbourne. My family is Muslim, and having an arranged marriage is just the way it’s done – there wasn’t even a thought that it would be any other way.

    You get to an age where you’re ready to get married – for me, that was around 18 – and your parents ask whether you’re happy for them to put the word out. They then tell their friends and relatives

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