Mezza Italiana
by Zoe Boccabella
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appears in About Italy and Travel.
Growing up in Brisbane in the 1970s and 80s, Zoë Boccabella knew if you wanted to fit in, you did not bottle tomatoes, have plastic on the hallway carpet or a glory box of Italian linens. Though she tried to be like "everyone else," refusing to learn Italian and even dyeing her dark hair blonde, Zoë couldn?t shake the unsettling sense of feeling "h...
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