My Strong Legs
6 min readMar 14, 2018
“You must be a really strong woman because we’ve been walking for a while and you aren’t tired.”
Walking down a long stretch of coast one summer night with a friend, there was plenty of activity going on: families were having barbecues, there were cotton candy sellers, every couple of steps, there were men selling water and ‘simit’ (a Turkish sesame ring) and groups and couples walking around.