Where Have You Gone Molly Malone?
<p>We are back ‘home’ in Turkey. Even though I’ve been in school for two years in the UK, I am seven now and all children start school in Turkey at the age of seven. Şahver Parıldak is my first grade teacher. She is a heavy set woman who seems to only wear black skirts and black cardigans. She has dark hair and a stern face. I will be her student for the next 4 years. In those 4 years she will drag me often to the blackboard, pulling my ear until it turns red, she will hit my knuckles hard with a ruler when I haven’t done my homework or if there is dirt under my nails. I’ll be 55 years old when a manicure specialist will tell me that my nail is doomed to gather dirt because of the natural gap between the nail and the flesh. “That’s just how some nails are.”</p>
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