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Let this quote inspire your entry: “Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”- ― Pierce Brown

I’ve always wondered about the word ‘home’ and its meaning. As an import in the country I’m living in, I called another country home for many years. We talked about “going home” and the people we left “at home”

About ten years after leaving England I took my children ‘home’ for the first time. I wanted them to see where their father and I came from. I took them to see where I was born, my schools, the houses we’d lived in before we left. We took them to London, showed them historical buildings, talked about the long history England has compared to Australia. And yet on the flight back to Perth, as the plane circled, ready to land, my ten year old son stared out of the window and I hard him say longingly the word ‘home.’ That was the moment I realised Australia was now my home.