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“For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.”

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“I grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the fallen. The reverence for their loss, for their children's loss. It was eloquent and grand. So moving and charged with solidarity...On September eleventh, I faced the last moments of your father's life. I saw him in every person…

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Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one…

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“The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.”

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“When I was a child, Haj Salem told me that answers can be found in the sky if you look long and hard enough.”

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“And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.”

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An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

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“Life had collected her pieces and returned her to love’s source. There had been no coincidence.”

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“Though they lived with the indignities of dispossession and military occupation, Huda sang with an unassailable freedom that comes only to those with unwavering…

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