title: The turkey that went to town: Something about turkeys in general and a story
author:  Martha Philbeck 
description: Artist, photographer, naturalist and farmer. Somebody who loves life and is documenting it all for later generations
zlib_text: A WOMAN WITH A PAST
  “Have you found your compatriots welcoming even though your relatives
  have returned to France?”
  Her mouth twisted. “The grand émigrés in Soho will have nothing to do
  with a woman who was a whore in Turkey.”
  He winced. “Surely no one said such an appalling thing!”
  “The aristocratic ladies did. Their husbands tried to corner me in empty
  rooms,” she said tartly. “I decided I would be safer among my more humble
  countrymen here in St. Pancras.”
  He bit off a curse. “You deserve so much better than this, Suzanne!”
  She sighed. “If there is one thing I have learned, it’s that no one
  ‘deserves’ anything more than the right to struggle for survival. I’d rather
  be here altering gowns in a cold room than living in luxury in a Turkish
  harem and wondering which night might be my last, so I think I am doing
  well.” She raised her teacup in a mock toast. “Will you drink to my
  survival, Simon?”
  “I can do more than that,” he said, his gaze intense. “Marry me,
  Suzanne.”
  
  Books by Mary J