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most of us have a relative living in
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Germany right maybe you are that person
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the one people wait for every summer
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vacation expecting chocolates and gifts
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but have you ever looked at life through
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the eyes of someone who moved abroad in
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this story we'll explore the deep drama
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of a woman who became a so-called German
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we hope you enjoy it if you're ready
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she had a gentle smile on her face as
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she walked out of customs pulling her
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suitcase behind her she quietly stepped
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into the morning painted with shades of
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gray she had returned to the land she
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longed for the streets where she spent
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her childhood coming back from Germany
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always stirred mixed feelings in her
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heart but this time there was a faint
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sadness too maybe the weight of feeling
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like a stranger in a foreign country for
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so many years had finally settled on her
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shoulders the mini bus waiting to pick
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her up was crowded her uncle aunt cousin
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cousins spouse even her sister-in-law
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were there each of them greeted her with
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hugs that seemed sincere but were filled
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with calculated words behind every smile
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there was a hidden expectation
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she had known this for years but this
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time she felt it more sharply in every
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pair of eyes that looked into hers she
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could see the dreams of the foreign
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currency in her pocket you must be tired
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"come on we'll talk on the way," her
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uncle said offering her the front seat
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once they turned onto the village road
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her cousin suddenly asked "Is the euro
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still strong in Germany sister?" She
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smiled "still strong?" she said the
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whole vehicle burst into laughter but
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there was no love in that laughter they
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were laughing at her ability to make
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money and at how her money made their
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lives easier her own life however had
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never been easy she woke up at dawn to
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do cleaning jobs went from house to
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house changing old people's diapers
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stocked shelves in supermarkets and
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returned to her one room apartment at
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night utterly exhausted yet everyone in
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the car thought she was rich the same
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cycle repeated every time she visited
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Turkey over the years they'd go out to
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eat she paid the bill shopping trips all
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eyes were on her wallet holiday clothes
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for the kids hospital expenses school
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supplies all covered by her and yet she
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was all alone she had no one in Germany
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in Turkey all they ever called her was
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the expat but she was a person a lonely
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woman who wanted to be loved they only
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saw her as walking currency one time her
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uncle had said "I trust you can you take
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out a loan in your name for me?" She
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agreed just to keep the family ties
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intact not a single payment was ever
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made on that loan she ended up having to
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pay it off entirely on her own each time
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she swallowed her pain and said nothing
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she always wondered "What if they
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stopped speaking to me what if I end up
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with no one?" Because in truth she had
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no one in Germany she lived alone in a
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small apartment eating quiet dinners by
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herself in Turkey even in a crowded
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family home she still felt utterly alone
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that was the worst part that year when
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she returned to Germany she realized she
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was sick first came fatigue then pain
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that wouldn't go away after long tests
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the doctors diagnosed her with breast
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cancer she lowered her head not a single
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tear fell from her eyes her soul had
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been sick for years and her heart was
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already tired as the disease progressed
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things became even harder she could no
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longer work with rent bills and
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treatment costs she started running out
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of money in the end she decided to
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return to Turkey she moved in with her
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uncle but nothing turned out the way she
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hoped don't be a burden on us like this
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her aunt said one evening are we
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supposed to pay for your hospital bills
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in Istanbul her cousin asked you earned
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enough in Germany didn't you save
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anything?" Someone else added she stayed
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silent no one remembered all those years
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they lived off her money now that she
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was sick no one wanted to be burdened by
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a sick person one morning when she woke
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up shivering in bed her uncle came in
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and said "We've been thinking we want to
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place you in a care home in Ankura at
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least there you'll get professional help
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we don't have time to take care of you
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here." She simply nodded she didn't have
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the strength to resist anymore that day
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they took her to the care home in an old
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minibus she looked out the window she
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watched the streets of her childhood the
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roads of her youthful hopes her heart
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still longed to be loved and 3 months
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later she quietly passed away in that
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care home no one came to the funeral a
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few staff members buried her in the most
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remote corner of the village cemetery
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but the real shock came afterward her
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lawyer showed up with an envelope a will
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dot and that will revealed the large sum
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of money she had quietly saved over the
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years hidden in a bank account no one
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knew existed even the envelope the
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lawyer held looked different yellowed
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slightly worn yet carefully preserved
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there was no crowd just the uncle the
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aunt two cousins and their sister-in-law
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sat across from the lawyer every face
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wore the same expression curiosity but
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in that curiosity there was no pain no
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longing her absence didn't leave a void
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in them there was only one thought in
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all their minds what could she have left
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behind the lawyer sat with a serious
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expression he settled into the chair
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slowly opened the envelope flattened the
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paper inside and then put on his glasses
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clearing his throat he began to speak
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the will was prepared in Germany in the
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presence of an official notary everyone
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present here is legally entitled to hear
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its contents the uncle broke the silence
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just say it already was there money did
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she have anything the lawyer raised his
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eyebrows yes there is a substantial
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amount of foreign currency saved in
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Germany in addition there is a lump sum
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to be collected from an insurance fund
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according to the deceased's will the
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entirety of this money is to be spent on
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the education of her nieces and nephews
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in Turkey specific names have been
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listed separate accounts have been
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opened for each child at first everyone
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froze then the aunt's son spoke up
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loudly what do you mean everything went
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to the kids not to us the lawyer nodded
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double quotes yes with the remaining
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funds a 4-year plan has been arranged to
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cover each child's university tuition
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accommodation costs and books her final
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wish was that those who once took from
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her would remember her not with regret
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but with hope by investing in their
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children the room turned cold everyone
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looked at each other no one could speak
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these were the people who had only ever
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seen her as a wallet while she was alive
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and now they had learned that even
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before she died she had been thinking of
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their children none of them could
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swallow the truth one of them mumbled
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"What did we do to her?" No one could
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answer the lawyer continued there's also
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a letter handwritten she asked me to
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share it with you he opened the paper
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her shaky handwriting was visible the
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lawyer began to read even as I write
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these lines my hands are trembling with
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an IV drip in my arm at the hospital you
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never really loved me i know that every
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time I visited all you asked about was
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my money during your weddings your
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holidays when your children were sick
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you remembered me but when I was sick no
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one asked about me i lived alone i aged
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alone in four walls in Germany i went to
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the doctor alone i cried alone you hurt
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me but I couldn't bear to hurt your
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children i wanted to do something so
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that maybe one day they wouldn't have to
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face the same loneliness I did if you
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ever want to remember me look into a
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child's room open a bookshelf walk
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through a university campus maybe you'll
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find me there the room was utterly
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silent the aunt's eyes filled with tears
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but she didn't cry the uncle rubbed his
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forehead one of the cousins lowered his
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head but the one who stayed the quietest
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was the one who had once asked her to
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take out a loan and never repaid a scent
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he looked at the clock on the wall as if
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time could be turned back but it
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couldn't the next morning whispers began
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spreading in the village it started in
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the local cafe and drifted through the
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streets the expat woman left a fortune
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to the children she thought of them even
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before she died while they had already
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forgotten her some people write their
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fate quietly but that day one person
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quietly walked to the far corner of the
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cemetery he left a single red carnation
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on her grave the uncle's youngest son
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"when I grow up I'm going to be a doctor
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i promise you are the only one who
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didn't forget me," he said her voice
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didn't echo in the wind but peace
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hovered over her grave because sometimes
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those who leave the quietest are the
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ones who say the most before the
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carnation left at her grave had even
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wilted everything in the village began
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to shift first came silence then that
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silence turned into guilt inside some
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homes anger in others and quiet regret
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in a few hearts no one dared speak about
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her aloud anymore because now every word
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felt like looking in a mirror and seeing
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their own shame the uncle's wife stirred
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her tea at breakfast and asked her
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husband so what's going to happen with
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the kid's education now he shot her a
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sharp look what's going to happen will
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happen the woman's dead nothing left for
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us to do but his insides were twisting
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because he had been the one who
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convinced her to take out the loan years
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ago put it under your name you can pay
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it easier with your foreign currency
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we're family after all he had said then
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they hadn't made a single payment for
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months she never said a word about it
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even while sick she was still paying off
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those debts and through it all not one
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of them had bothered to call her he
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could still hear her voice in his ears
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the one thing she had ever said "I don't
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want you to be upset with me." He was
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only now beginning to understand they
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knew she had no one they knew that if
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they cut her off she'd be alone and they
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had used that as a weapon against her
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but now how could he show his face at
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her grave the aunt's son was supposed to
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start university that year he had been
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accepted to a school outside the city
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but they hadn't registered him claiming
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they didn't have the money now after her
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death a fund had been set up for his
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education still the young man felt
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unsettled his mother was cooking in
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celebration saying "See she ended up
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being good for something after all but
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at night when he lay in bed and closed
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his eyes he remembered the day she had
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arrived from Germany how she walked into
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the house with her suitcase and his
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mother said "Look the Euro ant is here."
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He remembered how she quietly went into
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the kitchen to do the dishes he
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remembered the holiday clothes she
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bought for the kids how happy his mother
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was while she paid with her last bit of
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money pretending not to show it now he
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would be going to college with that
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money and he felt like he didn't deserve
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it at all one day someone from Germany
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arrived at the house where the woman had
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lived it was a neighbor German woman who
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had worked with her for years she
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brought a few boxers a few neatly
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organized files and some old photos
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everyone in the village watched the
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foreign woman from a distance she met
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with the lawyer then she went to the
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cemetery alone she opened the photos one
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of them was taken while working with the
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woman her eyes were full of light she
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placed the photo beside the grave then
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she whispered
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"She was the bravest woman I ever knew."
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Then she pulled a small notebook from
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her pocket it contained small notes from
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the years they had lived together german
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vocabulary the woman had learned recipes
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lists for laundry detergent insurance
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dates and occasionally little notes she
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had written to herself today I was very
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tired but they don't know they asked for
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money again i couldn't say no this time
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either if I weren't here no one would
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think of them but in truth I'm not here
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either the foreign woman cried in the
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silence of the cemetery the sound of her
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tears was the only thing that echoed
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then she handed the notebook to the
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lawyer show this to her family maybe it
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will remind them who they are when the
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lawyer gave the notebook to the uncle he
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brushed it off at first what is it a
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diary but one night after everyone had
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gone to bed he sat alone in the living
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room and opened it the first pages were
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full of German words
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[Music]
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hoffnum farewell loneliness hope then
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her handwriting changed her language
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softened her sentences became deeply
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personal on one page she had written
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"When I came to Turkey they didn't look
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me in the eyes but I still sat at the
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table because I had nowhere else to go."
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Another page read "I didn't hold a
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grudge because if they were upset with
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me I didn't exist in this world." And
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the final line "If they ever remember me
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let them say we hurt her." Let them say
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she never did anything bad to us because
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I don't know if I was ever loved but I
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did love always the uncle closed the
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notebook his eyes welled up but he
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didn't cry because those tears should
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have been shed years ago now every tear
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that fell was just guilt from then on
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whenever her name came up in the village
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everyone lowered their heads her name
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had become a private reckoning something
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no one dared speak aloud but one child
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coming home from school picked up the
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notebook he placed it between his
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textbooks because to him that woman
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wasn't just someone who sent money she
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was a hero months had passed since the
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woman's death but the heaviness inside
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the house still lingered everyone was
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talking about her will but no one dared
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say out loud "I wish we had been there
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for her while she was alive." Yet each
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of them knew the truth when she returned
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from Germany she was sick worn out
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exhausted like a broken bird and no one
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had asked her "How are you?" Back then
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everyone had other plans one was
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preparing for a wedding another's car
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had broken down and the woman had
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remained silent they had even heard
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about her illness from a neighbor and
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still didn't believe it no way she's
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strong they're exaggerating but now that
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her inheritance had come to light
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silence fell over them all because she
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had truly left something behind and it
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wasn't just money she had saved
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documents medical reports letters photos
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each one was like a mirror reflecting
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the past and whoever looked into that
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mirror saw their own face and didn't
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like what they saw the house she had
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stayed in while in Turkey had been sold
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it was small old made of mud brick but
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her voice still echoed in it the worn
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out suitcase she left behind the door
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the broken chair in the corner the empty
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coffee cup still sitting in the kitchen
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one day the uncle's youngest daughter
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entered the house without telling her
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mother she was curious while everyone
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else avoided the place she felt drawn to
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it in the woman's room she found a box
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on the floor inside were letters each
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written on different dates addressed to
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various relatives but none had ever been
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sent the envelopes were never sealed she
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read one "Dear aunt I'm not angry with
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you because to be angry one must first
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feel valued i know you only ever saw me
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as someone who brought money but every
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time I came I still hugged you because I
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had no one else." The young girl folded
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the letter a heavy ache filled her chest
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she had never liked the woman because
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her mother had told her not to she's
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just showing off her mother would say
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pretends to help but throws it in our
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face but these letters told a different
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story the woman's voice was softer more
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tender she sounded more like a fragile
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than anything else when news of the
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education fund created from her
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inheritance broke chaos erupted in the
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village what do you mean our kids are
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going to school with her money she
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didn't do anything when she was alive
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what's the point now i'm telling you the
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Germans are up to something these
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lawyers keep digging around she must
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have had other property too the rumors
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grew louder but the lawyer presented all
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the documents openly every scent the
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woman had saved over the years in
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Germany along with contributions from
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her workplace had been transferred into
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a foundation the foundation carried her
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last name its sole mission education
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not only her nieces and nephews but all
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underprivileged children in the village
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would benefit from it and still people
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couldn't stomach it they're going to
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school with our money they grumbled but
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the money they called ours was the cost
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of all the times they had never asked
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how are you the uncle's oldest son had
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started university but when he spoke
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about her to his classmates his words
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fell short we had a relative she helped
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us may she rest in peace he couldn't say
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more the guilt inside him was too heavy
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he had placed her photo in his wallet
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but couldn't bring himself to show it to
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anyone one day a professor asked him
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"You're benefiting from this fund did
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you know the woman?" "I did," he replied
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"but not the way I should have." That
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night he cried until morning the
18:28
emptiness the woman had carried in life
18:30
had now left a mark on everyone but
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there was no going back no call could be
18:35
made no visit could be paid everything
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was too late the lawyer played the
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woman's final cassette it had been
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recorded on an old German tape recorder
18:46
the woman was speaking her voice was
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tired but steady if you're hearing this
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I'm no longer here but my heart still is
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i was alone in Germany and in Turkey I
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was alone in a crowd but now I know I
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still wanted to leave this world as a
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good person without hurting anyone
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without being a burden i didn't
19:06
understand this life but maybe you can
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start too from where I left off that
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cassette echoed through the village it
19:14
was played on loudspeakers so everyone
19:16
could hear some people closed their
19:18
windows some cried others simply bowed
19:21
their heads and from that moment on no
19:24
one could speak her name with disdain
19:26
ever again because now she wasn't just a
19:29
relative she was a presence a lesson a
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silent hero no one in the village spoke
19:35
aloud about her anymore her name had
19:38
become a taboo some kept quiet out of
19:41
respect others out of shame but the
19:44
deepest silence lingered in the uncle's
19:46
house the door to the old room where the
19:48
woman had stayed was locked the key even
19:51
hung above it as if to say her breath
19:53
still lingered inside no one dared to
19:56
enter one day the uncle's wife tried to
19:59
open it while cleaning but a chill ran
20:01
through her and she pulled her hand back
20:03
behind the door was a photo tucked
20:05
between the wood and the wall the woman
20:07
stood at a train station in Germany
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suitcase in hand a tired but peaceful
20:13
smile on her face no one knew who took
20:15
it or why it had been left there but it
20:18
was clear what remained in that room
20:20
wasn't just belongings a whole life had
20:23
gone silent there the matter of
20:25
inheritance had caused change not only
20:27
among the relatives but across the whole
20:29
village the foundation she created had
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covered the school expenses of not just
20:33
her nieces and nephews but many children
20:36
in need some were filled with gratitude
20:39
others with jealousy one old man at the
20:42
village cafe stirred his tea and finally
20:44
broke the silence we never understood
20:47
her we never even tried but she always
20:50
thought of us the villagers nodded in
20:52
agreement but said nothing because there
20:55
was a truth that everyone knew but no
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one had the courage to speak in her
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final days she had been completely alone
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so alone in fact that not a single one
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of them had made it to her funeral in
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time the uncle's son was now at
21:08
university staying in the dorms he
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couldn't sleep one night and took out
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one of her unscent letters from his bag
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his younger sister had given it to him a
21:17
few months earlier the letter was
21:19
yellowed its corners curled the lines
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were written in a mix of Turkish and
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German dear nephew maybe you'll never
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read this letter but know that I always
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loved you i wish we had gone to a movie
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together i wish just once you had called
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and said "Come on let's go to the movies
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that would have been enough for me." The
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young man couldn't hold back his tears
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the next morning before heading to class
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he visited the foundation office that
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bore her name he asked the woman behind
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the desk "Was all this really her idea?"
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She nodded "yes," she planned everything
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she even left a note suggesting students
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write her letters so their progress
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could be tracked that day the young man
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filled pages in the office notebook he
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wrote to his aunt he said all the things
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he had never said he apologized and for
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the first time he ended a letter with a
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heartfelt thank you back in the village
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people were still talking about her but
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this time there was no gossip now
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children were asking their mothers "Mom
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who was that woman?" And mothers would
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answer quietly she was a relative a good
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person but we didn't appreciate her some
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mothers brushed the question off not
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wanting to talk but others trying to
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lighten the weight of their regret told
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their children about her she worked very
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hard she was always alone but she made a
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path for you to learn her house in
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Germany had been sold the proceeds had
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gone to the foundation her journals and
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belongings were displayed in a special
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room every student who visited now
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shared in her loneliness even for a
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moment each one of them wished they
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could have met her but none of them
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would ever have that chance yet when she
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was alive her door had been open to
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everyone one day the uncle's wife broke
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down while speaking to herself i never
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liked her because around her I always
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felt like I was lacking but it turns out
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it was her pain that disturbed me not
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mine no one heard that confession but
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from that day on every morning she
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stopped by the cemetery and placed a
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glass of water on her grave the grave
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once forgotten in a quiet corner of the
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village cemetery was now covered in
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flowers at first no one visited but soon
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children began stopping by whispering
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prayers because the foundation had
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distributed a small booklet to every
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student telling her story you're about
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to read the struggle of a woman whose
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hand was never held yet who reached out
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to hold others the truths that once
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echoed in silence were now written on
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the village walls everyone knew she had
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died alone but had left behind an army
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of young people walking in her name and
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now in every place where she had
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remained silent those young voices had
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begun to speak months had passed since
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the woman's death but instead of fading
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the traces she left behind only deepened
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the small village in Turkey had now
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become the center of a foundation that
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bore her name once spoken of only at
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weddings and funerals she had now become
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a source of inspiration a library named
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after her had been opened in front of
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the village school at the opening
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ceremony the uncle's son stood at the
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podium a piece of paper trembled in his
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hand this isn't just a thank you speech
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this is an apology an apology to a woman
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whose presence we never truly
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acknowledged whose worth we never truly
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recognized
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his eyes filled with tears sitting in
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the audience the uncle bowed his head
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for the first time his wife gently took
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his hand but that gesture that look no
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longer held meaning the weight of the
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truth had long since settled on their
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shoulders the woman's belongings from
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Germany had been brought to Turkey among
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them her most treasured item an old
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notebook inside were mixed lines in
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German and Turkish train tickets pasted
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between pages poems she had written as a
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child the notebook was now displayed in
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a glass case at the village library an
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elderly woman in the crowd leaned toward
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her granddaughter and whispered "Look my
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dear the owner of that notebook once
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helped everyone but no one ever reached
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out to help her don't forget just
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because no one holds your hand doesn't
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mean you shouldn't hold someone else's."
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A letter from a German insurance company
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revealed that the woman's legacy had
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left a mark not only in Turkey but also
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in Germany she had donated to migrant
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associations there and had established a
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monthly assistance fund specifically for
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elderly women living alone the news made
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its way into a small local newspaper in
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Germany the headline read "Lonely woman
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becomes silent." "Hero of hundreds of
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lives." The newspaper clipping
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eventually found its way to Turkey the
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uncle's daughter pinned it to her
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bedroom wall her mother looked at her
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strangely but said nothing years later
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the girl had found her own way to
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remember during a documentary filmed in
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the village a cameraman zoomed in on the
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woman's tombstone and caught a small
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detail etched at the bottom i had no one
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in this life but I loved everyone when
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that line appeared at the end of the
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documentary most of the crew couldn't
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hold back their tears that summer the
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foundation held its first graduation
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ceremony the students who had been
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supported throughout their academic
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journey received their diplomas while
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invoking her name before stepping onto
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the stage each one placed a single
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carnation in front dozens of carnations
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the stage was stained red the hall
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applauded in silence even silence now
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had meaning in that moment one sentence
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echoed in every mind her presence was
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only understood through her absence one
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day the uncle walked alone to the
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cemetery on the edge of the village he
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carried no water no flowers but for the
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first time he walked with a sincere
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heart he knelt by the grave and touched
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the soil "can you forgive me?" he said a
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soft breeze passed the sky was clear the
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sun cast a gentle beam onto the ground
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the uncle lifted his head closed his
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eyes no sound came no sign but that day
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he had finally been honest with himself
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and that honesty would remain not as a
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late confession but as a lifelong wound
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her will had been the cry of her
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loneliness but it was also a mirror she
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left behind as people looked into that
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mirror they saw their own shortcomings
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their own lack of love their own neglect
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and some wounds never healed nor should
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they because some regrets are meant to
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live on in hearts as warnings
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