From high school in Turkey to the coast of Maine
By CANDICE J. DALE
We five girls gathered together on a small island in the Casco Bay for a long weekend to celebrate high school friendships formed over 45 years ago in Izmir, Turkey. Women flew north from Texas, North Carolina and Pennsylvania as I drove toward Portland from New Hampshire. For several, it was the first time flying as far north in the United States as the state of Maine, although they had traveled widely in the world. Three of us had been “military brats” in Turkey, and two were tobacco company children. The tobacco fathers had been North Carolinian entrepreneurs in the industry, living as ex-patriots with their young families on the local Turkish economy for 30 years. These two women had grown up in Izmir and spoke Turkish fluently. All of our mothers had supported our fathers by raising us and building family life in sometimes challenging conditions, setting aside whatever personal aspirations they may have had of their own.
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