Poh Ling Yeow

strict home that had, you know, the cultural kind of conservatism as well as religious.

And I found it really stifling.

And I think I did still have this American dream, but it was just slightly different now.

You know, I thought, well, I can have that.

And, you know, I'm now a church member and like, but after Utah, I went to Canada and

And it's, you know, I don't know if you've ever been there, but it's, you know, you would know of it, but it's very liberal there.

And my best, my first best friend was trans.

And just from that moment, from the get-go, my life just got turned on its head because I was meeting all these people that were outside of this little insular world that I'd popped out of, which was, you know,

in Adelaide, in a church environment.

And I had to start to reconstruct, like, the way I saw the world and what morality, what sort of moral structure I had just got completely blown to smithereens.

And so...

Well, I had to question everything.

And then also when I was in Utah, the husband that I was looking for did not happen.

And instead, I managed to be a magnet for everything that was like.

my parents' nightmare essentially.

So I was at a non-alcoholic Mormon nightclub and managed to find, right, could you just imagine, like clearly fate had, you know, different things in store for me.

I managed to find in a Mormon university town a bikey ex-boyfriend

escort from LA who was back to help raise his illegitimate child it was like a mess and I was like yes that one's for me that one's for me like a moth to the flame like a moth to the flame and because I was so naive I just had no idea how to how to pick them and um

So that was that.

But it also, as you're talking about this and your world being blown wide open after this kind of eight years in a very constrained, protected, rule-based religion and also in one of the smaller cities in Australia.