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A Very Good Friend.
Submitted by: Lotti Jonsson
Pezenas FranceI am 64 years old. Since I was 20 I meditate TM and don't eat meat. I think love is important and the the book The Secret is true.
When I was young I was studying in Lausanne in Switzerland and lived with a Turkish girlfriend for one year. We were very close and had a fantastic time together.
Then I left for Sweden and she for Turkey and we wrote some letters to each other and that was it.
Forty years later my husband and I were going to a conference in Istanbul and I told my husband how much I wanted to see her. I was looking on Facebook and the Internet but no Sirin. I said to my husband I think I will meet her once we get there. It may be that I was thinking about her and I was feeling how it would be to see her. My husband said do you think you will meet her in a town with 12 million people?
We went to Istanbul and we went on a boat trip on Besporen. I was talking with our guide in the bar and I told my story, that I am looking for my friend. He asked me what her name was. I said Sirin Kaynac. He said my chef’s name is Kaynac, he is on the boat, I will talk to him.
Suddenly a man in a white suit arrived and he told me that he was Sirin’s brother! We have been looking for 40 years for you and now you here!
I was crying, laughing and dancing around. He called Sirin on the phone. She was living now in the south of Turkey. So happy to just talk on the phone, we promised to see each other in the future.
My husband and I stayed a couple days later and Sirin’s brother and his wife invited us for dinner in a nice restaurant. We had to pick his wife up around the corner and she has her friend with her.
What a surprise! The friend was Sirin, my friend from when we where studying in Lausanne. We couldn’t believe it, we where crying from happiness both, and it felt like yesterday we were still all the same.
It was a wonderful night and the day after she was flying home to the south and my husband and I to Sweden. After two years, we went to her place in the south.