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Random Saturday

In 2011 I went to Turkey with my friend Sharyn. That westward-leaning peninsula has been the crossroads of continents for millennia and everyone who did so left their mark, but especially the Greeks and the Romans. It’s no wonder Turkey has twenty-one world heritage sites; they could easily have twenty-one more. But my favorite was…

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Termessos

They say there are more Greek and Roman ruins in Turkey than there are in Italy and Greece. I just got back from Turkey and I believe it, but what is even more marvelous is that the ruins are so accessible. If we had stuff like that over here, it would be sequestered behind a…

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