This is the story of a story. It is a memoir of a woman'slife, and her family's journey, spanning the 20th centuryfrom the Netherlands to the Colonies of Indonesia and backagain. The text was compiled from transcriptions of oral story-telling and is supplemented with 200 original photographs.Julia Airey is a graduate of the UniversityCollege Roosevelt in the Netherladns whereshe triple majored in Law, Linguistics, andGeography. Her academic repertoire hasincluded archive research into the Dutch slavetrade, fieldwork on culture and identity inMexcico, linguistic corpus analysis, and editingthe Current Affairs section of the universitynewspaper. Julia has been publishing hercreative writing under pseudonyms since shewas a child. Contact details may be found inside.