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I think that first unexpected move is the one that prepares for anything to follow; it's just getting through the first one that is most difficult! I moved 2,500 miles to get my first teaching job and it was a culture shock for I ended up in a small cowboy town in the western US. sam
posted by
sam444
on July 16, 2011 at 7:21 PM
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moving is one of the biggest traumatic events in a person's life....im planning on moving to the middle east....
posted by
Annicita
on July 16, 2011 at 10:23 AM
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I enjoy reading stories about your life, Kabu. And the way you tell them is fun and warm.
posted by
adnohr
on July 15, 2011 at 6:00 PM
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That was truly a life change for you I can see that. Dear one life can be hard in a great variety of ways. Bless you dear lady.
posted by
Justi
on July 15, 2011 at 3:03 PM
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It can be so difficult to make such major moves in one's life.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on July 15, 2011 at 9:43 AM
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Kabu you were still your Mum and Dad's little girl. A Kabu today would just have babies and live happily in the cottage, what a difference a few decades make. You poor little thing Kabu of the past.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 15, 2011 at 6:23 AM
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So many changes in women's lives are the same -- it seems we pioneered
the same territory. There's a book somewhere I've never read, but it's title tells the whole story: "All Our Secrets Are The Same." I was startled, years back, that what I thought was my singular experience was almost universal. I don't think I still have my copy of "The Thorn Birds," but I think of it every time I read your stories of Australian life.
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Pat_B
on July 15, 2011 at 6:14 AM
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This is such an intimate glimpse of the mind of a young, newly married girl. I resonate with many of the things you have said, and remember the huge, overpowering loneliness when I was at home with our new baby while Ed was out at work. We moved to a new house while I was in hospital having the baby, and I knew no one. Difficult times, for youngsters.
posted by
Rockingrector_retd
on July 15, 2011 at 4:01 AM
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Very interesting.
I have always lived in the same city. I moved across town when I got married, and then after my children were all gone, I moved across the river to the north part of town. I've always been on a lot of vacations and short trips, but I was always glad to come back to Kansas City to live.
posted by
TAPS.
on July 14, 2011 at 9:18 PM
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Kabuiepie:-)
I love your post and now you have that "small house on a lot of land and make ourselves a fortune..." and now you find it was a love fortune right?. That l'il Koala is priceless love.
posted by
WileyJohn
on July 14, 2011 at 8:38 PM
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