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I BUY OLD THINGS

When I was a little girl, I wasn't yet acquainted with poetry. I didn't even know what literature was until one day when I stumbled upon a poem in one of the newspapers at home. From that moment on, I fell in love with poetry and the poet. I had just entered the second grade, I was very young, and perhaps I didn't fully understand the poem, but it opened doors to a new world for me. The author of that poem, Orhan Veli Kanık, became the first poet I loved in my life.