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View flying into Ireland from America
and again mentioned the possibility of moving to Ireland. Maggie, with her Long Island accent, bluntly said, “Sue, you just need to do it! You keep talking about it, and your friends and family won’t encourage you because they don’t want you to go. So I’m telling you. What is stopping you?” That was the push I needed. Sometimes I can’t believe I’m here and I actually did it. It was almost a year between when I decided to move and when I made the move. I quit my job, rented out my house, and moved by myself at the age of 36 to a country where I knew almost no one. All for no real reason other than I was in a rut,
I love Ireland, and I did not want to live with the regret of thinking “What if?” Within two weeks of moving here I met the man I will marry. We have been living together for two years now and I can’t believe I needed to move to another country to meet the love of my life. It’s even weird to write it down like that, but that’s what happened. Of course there was (and sometimes still is) a lot of tears, homesickness, distress of being away from family and comforts of home, fear of the future and the unknowns…but all in all I am happy with the decision I made to change my life.
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