You really can't go home again

Day 7 of The Seal: A 30-Day Micro-Memoir Series

They call us third-culture kids.

The ones who went to international schools where they asked us, How many countries have you lived in?

And we said, Three.

Four.

I say nine.

But I always knew I was more an exile than an expat.

When I told my friends I couldn’t speak either of my parents’ native tongues, they said:

Couldn’t they at least have taught you basic th…