Being Single For 12 Years Ended Up Shaping My Identity
Without realising it, that lonely decade became a slow reclamation. Free of obligation to anyone but myself.
I was never a girl who thought too much about my wedding day. My father, God rest his soul, was always more interested in giving my sister and I advanced spelling tests from the back of the World Book Dictionary than talking to us about marriage.
PUBLISHED ON SBS VOICES, 15 APRIL 2021