Queue Jumper

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  • It
  • was
  • 1982
  • and
  • I
  • was
  • 26
  • years
  • old,
  • endeavouring
  • to
  • adopt
  • a
  • child
  • from
  • a
  • Third
  • World
  • country. My
  • book
  • is
  • a
  • firsthand
  • account
  • of
  • being
  • one
  • of
  • a
  • small
  • number
  • of
  • forerunners
  • travelling
  • to
  • the
  • source,
  • contesting
  • authorities
  • and
  • being
  • labelled
  • a
  • ’queue
  • jumper’.
  • I
  • embarked
  • on
  • this
  • journey
  • naively
  • unaware
  • of
  • my
  • so-called
  • crime. Due
  • to
  • a
  • political
  • agenda,
  • I
  • was
  • forced
  • to
  • remain
  • on
  • foreign
  • soil
  • for
  • my
  • act
  • of
  • compassion
  • and
  • desire.
  • Subject
  • to
  • a
  • circus
  • of
  • torment
  • and
  • bureaucracy,
  • set
  • against
  • a
  • backdrop
  • of
  • seedy
  • characters
  • [some
  • of
  • which
  • I
  • was
  • later
  • to
  • discover
  • were
  • on
  • Australia’s
  • Ten
  • Most
  • Wanted
  • List],
  • poor
  • desperate
  • characters,
  • and
  • kind
  • strangers.
  • It
  • was
  • a
  • journey
  • of
  • a
  • lifetime
  • to
  • which
  • I
  • came
  • home
  • with
  • a
  • beautiful
  • son
  • who
  • to
  • this
  • day
  • still
  • makes
  • me proud.
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