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Monika, Poland and Marco, Italy. They met in Salento in 2014 at a folk dance workshop and have lived together since 2015. Being a mixed couple? According to them “it is a meeting/clash. It's not simple, it's not trivial. You discover and enrich yourself with a culture that is not yours. We are different in many things and trying to understand each other's point of view more leads you to ask yourself questions and not take anything for granted." Monika said: “sometimes I cling to cultural and identity habits. When we clash I always do an analysis on why this thing is important for me, whether I can leave this custom or habit or whether it is important for my identity. I am Polish in Italy, one more story about myself. A continuous discovery, but also a struggle in the lack, in the gaps of narrative meaning. In my opinion it is important to accept that narrative void, we don't always have to understand each other."