The Grey Calm Before the Storm in Istanbul
<p>In<strong>April 2008, going through a divorce.</strong> I just didn’t know it yet. And there I was, by myself in Istanbul.</p>
<p>I had just finished a week on a school trip in France and after saying goodbye to everyone at CDG in Paris, I boarded another flight and headed the other way three hours to the largest city in Turkey.</p>
<p>I like to remember it as a snap decision, but it was all arranged ahead of time and though I had done some traveling in the years leading up to this moment, this city was about as exotic as things had gotten for me at that point.</p>
<p>What wasn’t arranged ahead of time is that I would be there by myself. The events that caused that circumstance are for another article (that I’ll likely never write).</p>
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