Today’s contributor is Nancy T. Wall, a mother, entrepreneur and author of Pulled by the Heart, which tells the true story of her experiences during ten years living in the Middle East, and then escaping with her two children. Before you say “Yeah, I saw that movie”, take note: Nancy’s story is not the one Sally Field portrayed on the big screen. Nancy’s is a love affair – with her Syrian-born husband, with the Arabic language and Muslim culture, and with the Middle East itself. Read on, as Nancy tells it in her own words.
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My story is a wonderful adventure and a magnificent love story of a young woman from Neenah, Wisconsin who gets to live a very big life. I took a leap of faith to travel to a third world country for someone I loved. Some would say I was so adventurous! But when we are young, it doesn’t always seem that way. The world is open to us… and fear is masked by our eagerness to learn and our capacity for adventure. That’s how it was for me.
