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NPR on life in the Foreign Service

Thursday, July 27, 2006, 13:36
Section: Life

I grew up overseas for much of my formative years — five years of middle school and high school, returning for 11th and 12th grade in the foreign country of America — and it’s rare that I encounter anyone who seems to understand the life.

This week, NPR is doing a series by a former Foreign Service wife talking in detail about what it means to be in the diplomatic corps. While her experience doesn’t directly mirror my family’s — she and her subjects tended to be in more Third World locations than we were — it’s otherwise very much in synch with my memories:


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