Home Sharing require a shared email address, or can we keep separate accounts?

If my wife and I want to use Home Sharing, do we both need to set up our iTunes with the same email address, or can we each keep our own iTunes accounts for our phones and computer, but share our purchases between the 2 accounts when connected to our wifi network at home?  I'm not really clear on how the whole Home Sharing this works.

It has to be an Apple ID, ideally it should be one of the accounts you use for iTunes since authorisation is required and not doing would use up an authorisation unnecessarily.

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