E book thepoweroflifestories

I am Feride Durusoy. I was born in 1951 Balıkesir Susurluk. İn A small house and a small town but a big and poor family.My father was making meatballs in the house and was selling them to the passengers in the train station. I had lost two of my brothers, they were younger than me. We were there children at home after these losts. For long years my father, my mother, my uncles and aunts in law gradpa and grandma lived in that small but crowded house.

When my father joinded the army for his military service we had economical problems. I was going to school and ı was a successfull student. When my father came back he opened a bike shop. He was repairing ther bikes and waas hiring them. In 1960 a military coup occured in Turkey and my father did not allow met o go to schoool anymore. In our small shop I was helping my father ,running after the bikes all day. My youth was harder I was not well educated and we had economical problems. At the age of 18 a teacher wanted to marry me and ı had not to much to say. My parents thought ıt was a good idea and I married. I had a daughter 1 year later. I lost my husband due to a bad illness. He even did not say it to me .

I came back to my fathers house with a daughter 4 years old. The society’s pressure was more and more on a widow with a child. I tried hard until my doughter came 15 years old.

I got married again in these years . I moved to Balıkesir with my daughter. My husbund was living there. But this amarriage was a disaster too. I divorced 3 monts later. And the route was known: my father’s house and the little town. İn 1988 my doughter achived to be a student in Uludağ university ın Bursa. We moved to Bursa. My doughter finished the university, got married and had his own firm now. Now I live in Edremit. I join lots of courses and go on my life.