Global Nomads Have Group of Their Own To Belong To

By Gary Edwards

Please don't ask Elizabeth Kehrig where's she's from.

She'll probably answer your question with one of her own: Where am I from when?

The 18-year-old Kempsville High School senior was born in Portsmouth Naval Hospital to an American father from Detroit, Mich., and an English mother. She has lived in Virginia Beach and London, has traveled widely throughout Europe and holds an American passport.

Her maternal grandfather was a British subject born in Burma; her maternal grandmother was also British, but born in Uganda. Her mother, Catherine Kehrig, was born in Windsor, England, though she spent much of her life on her parents' rubber plantations in Burma, Pakistan and Uganda. Read more...