TRIBUTE TO MADEMOISSLE ALICE

I FOUND THE BOX IN AN OLD WARDROBE, IT WAS HIDDEN UNDER THE OLD CLOTHES THAT UNCLE WAS NOT USING THEM. I BROUGHT IT TO MY UNCLE, HE SAID “IF YOU ARE CURIOUS ABOUT ALICE, HERE YOU CAN FIND HER ADRESS” WHILE HE WAS PASSING TO ME A LETTER WRITTEN BY A NICE HANDWRITING. WE STOP TALKING FOR SOME TIME, THEN HE ASKED ME TO READ THE LETTER. HE WAS LOOKING OUT OF THE WINDOW AT FIRST, ONE CAN SUPPOSE HE WAS NOT LISTENING…AFTER A FEW MINUTE HIS VOICE JOINED TO MINE, HE WAS REPEATING HER WORDS, HE GOT THE WORDS BY HEART ONE BY ONE…

“ MECID,
I SPEND THE WHOLE AFTERNOON AT “PATISSERIE MARQUISE” THINKING WHAT TO DO.

BECAUSE YOU EVEN DON’T COME TO FACE THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR FAITH, I DECIDED FOR BOTH OF US. BUT FIRST I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT SOME TRUTH….I LOVED YOU MECID, LOVED YOU AS YOU ARE; BUT THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH. YOU LOVED A GIRL FROM ISTANBUL FOR PLACING YOUR SELF IN THAT CITY. ISTANBUL WAS MY CITY BUT YOU DID NOT INCLUDE YOURSELF IN IT. YOU WANT TO CAPTURE IT BY CAPTURING ME. TRAGIC!…

YES IT IS TRAGIC, BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO LIVE IN IT WITHOUT ME BUT, I DECIDED TO LEAVE IT. AFTER THE TERRIBLE THING THAT HAPPENED RECENTLY MOST OF MY FAMILY DECIDED TO MOVE TO GREECE... RESTAURANT OF DESPINA IS CLOSED; THE BOOKSTORE OF YORGO CAN NOT KEEP ON BECAUSE IT IS TOTALLY BURNT! MADAM ARTEMISIA WOULD NOT SERVE ON HER DRY CLEANING SHOP BECAUSE SHE HURT HER ARM WHILE SHE WAS TRYING TO SUPPORT THE DOOR FOR NOT TO LET THEM CAME IN…AND I SUPPOSE I CAN NOT KEEP ON WORKING AT THE SAME OFFICE. SO I HAVE TO GO…YOU CAN NOT IMAGINE HOW HARD TO BE A STRANGER IN YOUR BIRTH PLACE and SO HARD TO LEFT THE CITY THAT YOU WERE BORN, TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT FAMILIAR TO IT. THE PLACES LIKE “PATISSERIE MARQUISE” WILL LOST IN THE MEMORY OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LEAVING THE CITY.

:hreat:

THE VOICES OF THE CHILDREN WOULD SPEAK A COMMON LANGUAGE AT THE STREET OF “TATAVLA” AND THE KITCHENS OF THE HOUSES WOULD CONTAINS ONLY KEBABS, NOT THE THE COOKS MADE BY TASTY OLIVE OIL…
IT’S HARD TO BE A STRANGER WHERE YOUR ANCESTORS LIVED FOR AGES. WE WERE WISHING TO SHARE THE CITY WITH YOUR PEOPLE VERY WILLINGLY…
ANYWAY!

YOU OFFERED ME TO GET MARRIED AFTER I WOULD CHANGE MY RELIGION, NOW; I AM OFFERING YOU JUST CHANCE YOUR NAME TO “ARES”- TO FIGHT FOR OUR LOVE- AND FIND ME IN THESSALONIKI. MY ADREES WILL NOT CHANGE FOR A LONG TIME, SO IF YOU COME, YOU CAN FIND ME EASILY; IF YOU CAN NOT FIND ME, THINK THAT WE WILL MEET AT THE OTHER SIDE. I WILL WAIT FOR YOU TILL THAT DAY COME..

YOUR’S ENIS”
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“ENIS WAS THE NAME THAT I OFFERED HER TO CHANGE HER OWN NAME” MY UNCLE ADDED WHILE HE WAS TURNING HIS FACE TO ME. WE FOUND OURSELVES BUSY WITH THE MEMORIES OF HER DURING A FEW MINUTES AFTER WE FINISHED SPEAKING.,
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I FOUND SOME OLD PHOTOGRAPHS OF HER, SHE HAD RED HAIR WITH CRYSTAL CLEAR GREEN EYES.

UNCLE SAID “ THEY JOKE TO HER WHEN THEY SAW HER COLOURFUL EYES WITH RED HAIR LIKE - FIRE ALARM ON EMERALD FORREST-. 
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AND THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN AT THE FIRST DATE OF US. THE PHOTOGRAPHER IS SO FAMOUS NOW, DON’T KNOW IF IT COMES FROM HIS TALENT OR THE CHARM OF HER”…
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UNCLE MuRMURED SOME MORE WORDS AND HE LAID DOWN TO THE BED THAT HE WAS SITTING IN; “ AYHAN, WHEN YOU ARRIVE TO THESSALONIKI  JUST SEARCH FOR THE ADRESS; IF YOU FOUND HER LET ME KNOW, IF YOU CAN’T … DON’T SENT ANY NOTE, I WILL UNDERSTAND…”

IT WAS THE LAST TIME I SAW MY UNCLE, HE COULD NOT GO OUT FROM THE HOSPTAL HE WAS CURING SO I COULD NOT SAY "ALICE WAS NOT LIVING AT THE ADRESS THAT HE GAVE ME"...