Gokhan and Baba called at 6:30am. They had arrived at the station earlier then expected. Tolga left right away to pick them up, and I got ready for school. He was back within a half hour with a my father-in-law, brother-in-law, three crates of mandarins, and a bucket of pomegranate seeds he had scooped out of the fruit and saved in the fridge.
Baba was wearing his suit. He had put it on yesterday in the early morning after a shower and shave. He had a tie on and his sweater vest and had been whistling and singing his tuneless tunes all day. Gokhan was just as excited. He loved everything - the bus, the city, the apartment, the furniture, the closets, the lights, the birds . . . We had been telling Gokhan to come to Ankara for ages it has infused him with hope. He has a job interview on Friday even.
Anne, Hakan, his wife and new baby all come on Friday with bananas from the banana tree.
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