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Mariah Hatch
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“My four-year-old daughter, Yaffa, wearing a pink dress given to her by a friend, hears a bomb explode. She gasps, covers her mouth with her dress’s ruffles. Yazzan, her five-and-a-half-year-old brother, grabs a blanket warmed by his sleepy body. He lays the blanket on his sister. You can hide now, he assures her.”
— Oct 13, 2025 08:11PM
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Mariah Hatch
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“I’ve personally lost three friends to war, a city to darkness, and a language to fear. This was not easy to survive, but survival proved necessary to master. But of all things, losing the only photo of my grandfather under the rubble of my house was a real disaster.”
— Oct 15, 2025 11:28AM
