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My mother made Arabic coffee every morning of my childhood. She woke before anyone else, ground the beans in t...

My grandmother trained as a nurse in the autumn of 1940. The bombing had started in September and by the time...

I found the letters six months after he died. They were in a shoebox in the back of his closet, tied with the...

The world didn't end with a bang, but with a pop. A soft, wet sound, like a child pulling a cork from a bottle...

The old man had been standing outside my bookstore for twenty minutes, staring at the "CLOSING DOWN" sign in t...

My father bought the cabin the year I turned eight. It was on a small lake in the middle of Michigan, three ho...

My grandfather planted the mango tree the same week my father was born, and by the time I came along it was ta...

My father was a man of few words, but grand gestures. His language wasn't English, or French, or any other ton...

My grandmother's kitchen in Aleppo was the smallest room in the house and the one everyone tried to be inside....

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