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"I held up my US passport, that blue and gold rectangle that is recognized as a kind of dum-dum pass, as in, don't expect much from this person, this is just another pampered, contented American, trotting around the world as Americans do." UGH SHE CAPTURES THE EMBARRASSMENT I FEEL WHEN I'M ABROAD SO WELL

"In my experience, government is one of the worst judges of the truth." PREACH 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

"In clinical terms, narcissism is fundamentally a disease of requiring sameness - of not being able to understand that someone different from yourself can exist according to his own needs and desires, and be entirely worthy of his existence." I cri

Wait this part where members of the diaspora are relating colors of their countries' flags back to Armenia is so fucking cute ... 😭

I board a jumbo plane at LAX

One-way ticket to Yerevan

Who even am I if I'm not consuming more than 1 book at a time

Döner kebabs 😭😭😭

Olsun 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

Can we all stop killing each other 😩😩😩😩😩😭😭😭😭😭

Y'all, I think memoirs are my favorite genre. It's taken me this long to come to this realization.

I'm having a cultural identity crisis 🥴

"People idled in clusters, simultaneously ignoring and scrutinizing one another, simply being together, which is what immigrants did, creating for themselves a comfortable pocket of society within the larger, less comfortable one." 🤌🏼

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Memoirs written by journalists hit different

I love that we start with a linguistics lesson