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Expats are like dandelions

Expats are like dandelions

“They are a dif­fer­ent breed,” my friend Claire informed me.“The friend­ships form fast, go deep, and can get pulled up just as fast.” Expats are like dan­de­lions. We make a wish, and the winds take us to new ground. We grow quickly on our new land. And the tap­roots of new friend­ships grow deep. Like a dan­de­lion, when some­thing pulls on it to uproot it again, friend­ships can be pulled all the way out, the deep tap...

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There is something about hard times that brings a choice: either resiiency and we grow and strengthen from it, or we give up and fold. Collapse can be a protective choice, when one needs time to heal and regain resources before resiliency can return. . . . And our voices get clarified by the scarring. — Jill Hackett, Women, Voice, & Writing