Erkenci Kuş is a rom-com-drama from Turkey. It surely packs a punch with the main leads & supporting cast, music & literature references, eccentric characters & great plot lines!
Turkey is where east meets west and there's that appeal & something fo...
I've been back in Istanbul for about 9 months, and what a dramatic few months it has been!
Well, I couldn't have known how my life would transform and transcend after meeting Sanem. When I'm with her, I'm nervous yet really brave and she brings out the best, and worst in me, in equal parts and turns!
She's my mountains and oceans combined, my friend, my one and only, love and true soulmate! ....
When I'm with her, I have this overwhelming need and want to touch her, feel her, hold her and hug her.... apart from the other things I want to do to her, with her and for her!
As she lies sleeping on my lap, content in our love for each other, I start to analyze and wonder what her touch does to me and how it brings me home!
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I professionally shake hands with men and Euro-kiss women all the time..... but have I really, truly been touched by anyone? Also, not just figuratively but literally!
I saw Baba after nearly 6 months and I had missed him terribly! I now tower over him in height and I was so glad to hold and hug him after all that time! It was clear that he had missed me too. At that time, I didn't know the seriousness of his health condition and our precious couple of days together means so much to me now!
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Past Baba, I hugged Emre and messed with his coiffed hair.... Waiii, is he handsome? But not more handsome than me, Hah!
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At the 40th anniversary celebration, I met Metin and got a jesting, friendly punch and hug... wow I do miss Metin! He was a great friend and I should make amends. If Huma can be forgiven, Metin technically didn't do anything wrong!
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Meeting Akif with Sanem was fun! As if he could foretell our future, he assumed we were there together, as a couple! I haven't seen Akif in a few months as well and I've been a bad friend to my friends but I blame it all on the sweet, compelling and overwhelming obsession that is Sanem.... and I wouldn't have it any other way!
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The first time I truly held Sanem was her first time at the mountain hut which is now our mountain hut.... it now represents her and our love for each other!
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Wow, man, I have it bad! I miss her even when she is next to me... because she's next to me and not on me. This thing, connection, like gravity that I feel towards her defines my state of existence and being! She's in every waking moment, in my dreams and has completely usurped me, body, mind, spirit and soul!
When she touches me, I truly come alive and feel reborn into the world!
But why is that? I don't want a reason for it to be so, but it does make me wonder how she's like an oasis in the middle of the desert and a warm blanket in the coldest ocean!
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Aahhh... voila! I recognize and realize such a fundamental thing about us! Over the last few months, she is the only person and woman who had managed to breach my personal space as much as I've managed to breach hers!
She's touched my heart and soul but also my body in her own sweet, innocent and caring ways! I'm like an addict when it comes to her hugs and touch... craving for more and more each day!
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Author's Note: FIVE people - that's it, only FIVE people in the world have held Can Divit in the last few months and 3 of them are somewhat gone from this life! I found it strange, the lack of that human touch, my empathy grows for the character and broke my heart a little! Yes, I know he's fictional but somehow feels real!
In contradiction, Can Yaman's interview below he talks about this topic. Everyone is entitled to their privacy, physical space and peace and it's abominable that people would invade that without his permission....it broke my heart a lot!
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Dear Arkadaş vs Ablas,I hope you enjoyed this part as much as I loved writing it !!!
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