Goodreads asked Nick Aaron:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Nick Aaron One interesting little story. My parents emigrated from Holland to South Africa in 1953, when my mother was 25. They never returned to Holland after that (except on visits of course), their four children (including me) were all born in Transvaal, and eventually we ended up in Switzerland. Now the funny thing is, in 1981, at 25, I left Lausanne and went back to Rotterdam, where my father came from, and a few years later, after I'd married a Dutch woman, our children were born only a mile or so from their grandfather's place of birth! But their grandma, uncles, aunt, and cousins all live in Switzerland and speak French! Now Hanna and I live in Belgium, our kids are third generation expats, our son moved to Berlin and speaks German. Could make a nice plot for a novel, no?

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