"Girlfriends come and go but job opportunities like this don't," said a wise uncle to me at a dinner party many years ago. I was planning to resign from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to join my girlfriend in Australia, after just 2½ years on the job.
Over some drinks and tidbits, my father had been complaining to a group of old men that I would not listen to anyone and was making this decision in haste. I was blinded by love and would live to regret it.
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