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"Why couldn’t I just be ‘Carol Collins’?” I used to ask myself. “Carol Collins” was my made-up name for an all-American girl from Illinois who knew who she was and where she came from. She could go home, see the old school, go to class reunions or visit old friends. Her best girlfriend from her childhood still lived nearby. She could marry the boy next door. She lived her whole life in her passport country, the United States. “Going home?” The “Carol Collins” lady next to me on a return flight from Boston to Dallas asked me the usual question. I had been in Boston for a long weekend with friends. Six months earlier, I had left Paris, France, after 25 years there to live in a Dallas suburb, Plano, Texas. Before Paris, I had spent time in New York City and Beirut, Lebanon, where I grew up. “I’m not sure,” I replied, caught off guard. Camille K. Hedrick is a marketing and communications professional residing in Plano, Texas. A United States citizen and French bilingual, Camille is originally from New York City. She grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, and then spent 25 years in Paris, France, before returning to the United States in 1999. Enjoy Camille's reflection about the friends, families and experiences that "Carol Collins" only dreamed of! And find out how Camille is more "Carol Collins" than she thought. Read the full text of this article in the January/February 2005 issue of Horizons. |
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