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Stephanie Wood

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Humans are hard-wired for love and journalist Stephanie Wood is most definitely human. So in 2014, when a tall stranger with twinkling green eyes contacted her after finding her dormant profile on a dating website, she thought, ‘What the hell.’

It certainly wasn’t love at first sight: during their first couple of meetings, she sensed there was something slightly off about this “daggy” bloke called Joe – an affluent farmer and former architect who worked on the land but also had a harbourside home in Sydney, two kids, an ex-wife and a fabulous boat.