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"Natarsid, natarsid, ma hame ba ham hastim. Have no fear. We are all together here."

“Even as a child, I quite quickly realised that it was more interesting with the women. The men either talked about the politics of ages past or played cards…But the women talked about real people and real problems. Which neighbour had argued with her mother-in-law; whose daughter was engaged to whose son but had shown herself to be immoral; which families had drifted into an American lifestyle,”