One of the neighbours we connected with was a family from the Netherlands. Their lives mirrored our own as they too had recently relocated with a toddler in tow, exactly the same age as ours...
I taught my friends bachata in the middle of Manchester. My worlds were colliding…
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There are Nights in Goryeo when the city never sleeps, and I lie awake in my bed…
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A promise of fading light and cooling mercury…
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I was five when I fell in love. That instantaneous, all consuming, hard-to-breathe kind of love…
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I took everything I could from Nashville and in return, Nashville took everything out of me. I haven’t figured out how to make this city my home and I don’t know how to stay…
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‘It’s cancer’… The doc said. And with that prognosis, I saw myself living back in Perth, Western Australia…
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Once you get off the main thoroughfares that cut through the city, you are immediately in labyrinths of small streets, side streets and alleys. You never know what you’re going to find as you walk down those byways. A new restaurant, a tailor shop, an antique shop, a high-end jewellery store side by side with a massage parlor or a five-star hotel with a small flower stall next to it….
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It’s a tea towel. Why apologize?
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My friends asked me why I went out with him at all, knowing that he wasn’t from here. I said that’s why I was attracted to him…
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I’m sitting under a small stone shelter on Hibiya Dori. It’s raining, and businessmen and women are hurrying past under their umbrellas…
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