Coming Home
A Memoir
by Elizabeth Meyer

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We all have a story to tell, be it long or short, truly blessed or full of challenges. Coming Home tells just such a story, starting from the author’s humble beginnings as a shy, reclusive girl in a Mennonite community on Vancouver Island in the 1930s. From there, it follows the many twists and turns of her life, through her early school and work experiences, and learning to stand up for herself, to her marriage, divorce, and life as a single parent, right up to her eventual retirement from a career as a Registered Nurse. Replete with joy and sorrow, love and loss, hers has been a life well lived, and her story full of gems—moments big and small that capture beautifully the importance of family, having faith in oneself through adversity, and the redemptive power of love.

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Author Elizabeth Meyer’s family immigrated to Canada, sacrificing much to give her and her siblings a better life than they ever would have found in the old country and providing them with a solid foundation for prosperous (if humble) lives. But what they didn’t leave behind for her generation and those that would follow were their stories—those small gems of insight into who they were as people (and what their lives had been like) that would keep them alive for future generations. And as a young person, she had never thought to ask. Pained by the many missed opportunities to learn more about them while they were still alive, and not wanting her own children and grandchildren to feel similar pangs, this book (at its core) was written for them, though she hopes that her journey will resonate with others as well. In her eighties now, Elizabeth is a member of the Comox Valley Writers Society, and still lives on her own in a duplex in Courtenay, British Columbia, where she enjoys reading, gardening, and spending time with her son and daughter, who both live nearby, as well as her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, who visit occasionally.

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