A moment that changed me: A telegram arrived - and I had to choose between my head and my heart

Should I follow the man of my dreams to work in a club in Tehran? Or take up a place at an elite university? Thankfully, my dad gave me advice Ive lived by ever since My parents did not expect me to land a place at university. I was not considered academic enough. And anyway, I was a girl. Instead, I was being primed for marriage. My mother didnt see anything wrong with this. Born in Britain between the two world wars, when the scarcity of men had made them precious commodities, she had left sch...