Few people recognize the human dilemma of being raised in one culture, then living in another. The toll it takes on someone trying to fit in can be enormously stressful or it can be rewarding. Personal conflicts can arise from misunderstandings of things you learned in one culture which are completely misunderstood in another.
Author Trudy Langer, called “Micke” during her younger years, was raised in Germany. At the tender age of 11, she was sent to an orphanage because she and her mother’s third husband did not get along. At 14, she ended her formal classroom education and went to trade school to become a beautician, then migrated to the United States as she reached adulthood.
But that was just the beginning of her story as she tells how she assimilated into this new world and lived life in her new country. Read about what became of her as she grew older. Her story is a lesson in how to navigate through life when your early foundation is different from where you actually live later on.
This story shows how one person navigated through life and the choices she made. It is well-worth the time it takes to read it.
