Write Your Heartbreak in Broken English

Ottoman Woman Reading, dated from the 19th century (This could also be Persian Woman Reading), an imperfect ceramic tile with cracks (repaired), chips on the edge

I was born in Strasbourg, France but raised in Ankara, Turkey.

French is the language I heard as a baby, but as much as I would have loved to, I could not hold on to it. My parents got separate…