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Dispatches from the Cowgirl: Through the Looking Glass with a Navy Diplomat's Wife

by Julie Tully

A family assignment becomes an eight-year journey

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A family assignment becomes an eight-year journey

Julie Tully’s account begins with a major relocation: leaving her career to accompany her naval-officer husband on what was expected to be a two-year assignment in Sub-Saharan Africa. The stay extends to eight years, across Cameroon, Nigeria, and Djibouti. Alongside the travel, the description frames the move as a personal crossroads for Tully, who had long dreamed of Africa and was reconsidering her place in the world as she approached forty. Her role as a military attaché’s wife also brings an unofficial diplomatic dimension to this memoir of life abroad.

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Readers interested in personal accounts of living abroad in Africa.
Readers drawn to travel writing connected to military and diplomatic life.
Readers interested in memoirs about career change and questions of identity.

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Life abroadTravel in Sub-Saharan AfricaMilitary family lifePersonal reinvention

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Would you move to Africa? For Julie Tully, a cowgirl who married a United States naval officer, the answer was a no-brainer: Yes!

Leaving her career and everything she knew behind to follow her husband, Julie was rapidly approaching forty and wondering, "What is my place in the world?" Enter Africa, the continent she had dreamed of since childhood, a chance to reinvigorate her life. A supposed two-year assignment for her family in Sub-Saharan Africa soon turns into an eight-year adventure in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Djibouti and sees Julie become an unofficial diplomat as wife to a military attach

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