Giuseppe Galella was making plans to go back to Italy to find a wife - until his sister mentioned him to a nice young lady named Antonietta.

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More than 60 years later, Giuseppe and Antonietta have a loving family, five grandchildren - and a letter from King Charles to celebrate six decades of marriage.

The pair had separately migrated from Italy to Wollongong, each aged 19, joining family members already here and hoping to find something better than the tough economic times that had beset Italy.

They found a new homeland, and each other.

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