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Migration
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These exiles seemed to have become prisoners of their memory of idyllic origin—they sat together with other prisoners of the past and spoke about the old country, and ate their traditional food while some of their folk music played in the background. They continuously ran counterfactuals
in their minds, generating alternative scenarios that could have happened and prevented these historical ruptures, such as "if the Shah had not named this incompetent man as prime minister, we would still be the
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Let him who has not a single speck of migration to blot his family escutcheon cast the first stone...if you didn't migrate then your father did, and if your father didn't need to move from place to place, then it was only because your grandfather before him had no choice but to go, put his old life behind him in search of the bread that his own land denied him...
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― The Notebook
― The Notebook
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