Red Wedding Gown

Every time I come to this city I am amazed at how many memories have been collected here, how much time was spent working, thinking, drinking and loving. Whenever I come here I think about how much laughter I had with friends, of all the nights we spent walking back from bars making stupid jokes, how many days we spent walking on the walls, talking about everything: life, politics, love, relationships, IMT.  Somehow it is easy to work here; it is silent and it is magical, in a way. But if you stay in Lucca for too long you forget that there is an outer world and what happens is that as soon as you get into the outer world, you realize that there are more inspiring things than this city. There are certainly less claustrophobic cities than Lucca. One cannot breathe as comfortably as one does in Istanbul, especially getting out of the plane and smelling the air of Istanbul, that air of liberation, that air of salvation, the smell of home even though my real home is Kayseri. As I sai