What's England like? I have a cousin who wants to study there.
Meira used to talk all the time about it. She was sixteen when he left; it bothers him that he doesn't know if she did. In his mind, she's still sixteen.
After a moment, he adds: I thought about France, but language. He makes a face. Turkish was hard. He spent four months watching kids' shows and struggling in broken Turkish before he knew enough to get a job doing anything other than cleaning toilets. He would have killed for this kind of auto-understanding field then; he suspects he understands as much of what she just said as he did because of it.
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Meira used to talk all the time about it. She was sixteen when he left; it bothers him that he doesn't know if she did. In his mind, she's still sixteen.
After a moment, he adds: I thought about France, but language. He makes a face. Turkish was hard. He spent four months watching kids' shows and struggling in broken Turkish before he knew enough to get a job doing anything other than cleaning toilets. He would have killed for this kind of auto-understanding field then; he suspects he understands as much of what she just said as he did because of it.