Where are you from?

If you’re anything like me, answering that question begins with a pause and a deep breath. For years I have pondered the best way to answer, yet each time I get asked, I brace myself for another recount of my entire life story. 

Whether it is in my love life, my identity or simply experiences of being treated or looked at differently, living the way I have, with a foot in each place, as a third-culture kid, has shaped every facet of my life and is the reason I am who I am today.