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"I looked for you and didn't find you. I wanted to tell you that they bombed Gaza and that Baba committed suicide. I went toward the al-Bahr Mosque and couldn't find you. I didn't find you. Baba committed suicide and they bombed Gaza for the twentieth day. Baba's suicide was trivial after all these days of them bombing Gaza."

"staying here means bleeding and living with a gushing wound, but you keep on living." //// "i memorized their stories and their white dreams about this place so as to pass exams. but i carved my stories, yours, and those of others who are like us, inside me. we inherit memory the way we inherit the color of our eyes and skin. [...] your memory pains me."

"Why did Tata choose to die alone, facing the sea? Was she always lonely, even when she was with us? Something about survivors leaves them that way. 'I walk in the city, but it doesn't recognize me,' she once said in a sad voice."