WITH VIDEOHalime was 18 years old when she was married off. For years she resigned herself to the situation. Until she fell in love for the first time in her life. That opened her eyes. To get out of her marriage, she had to say goodbye to her three children. “I wrote everyone a suicide note and left.”
Amy van den Berg
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It has to be, it cannot be otherwise. This sentence plays like a band in her head, the night before the goodbye. She looks at her three children (4, 11 and 14 years). There they are, the loves of her life. For them it is an evening like any other. For their mother it is not. Because what her children don’t know and she does: in a few hours she will leave everything in her life behind. Her eyes get wet. Putting to bed the last time, reading the last bedtime story. It is an unprecedented fight against tears.
Saying goodbye for the last time when the kids go to school in the early morning. Her 4-year-old daughter clings to her, cries. Like she knows. Hold back, Halime. Hold back. When the front door slams shut, she puts down her farewell letters. One for everyone. She gets in the car and drives away. “I don’t think you can put into words how I felt then.”
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