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Posted by Emil (Guest) squaremoon@emilsdiary.com - Wednesday, October 26 2005, 16:15:50 (CEST)
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Maggie,
That was truly beautiful. Inside and out. You definitely did your recollections of an ideal childhood in "paradise" great justice.
I can totally relate to afternoon naps when the whole house would fall silent- if not all of Tehran. And how impossible it was for me to fall asleep. I remember napping with one of dad's brothers after having our afternoon "chai" from the "simavar". He fell asleep so quickly, his enormous arm stretched over my back. I lay there for eternity, inching my little bony body to the edge of the bed, so that I could slip away... and play.
What few snapshots we do have from my childhood show us picnicking at the side of desolate roads on summer road trips, by ice-cold creeks and rivers, or red desserts, and gigantic mountains; friendly shepherds, and sheep with heavy fatty tails that European/Western sheep do not possess; even migrant farmers and their camels.
Here we would fix haphazard, yet delicious sandwiches with cold boiled chicken, butter, and lavasha. We would drink Canada Dry from the bottle.
I remember riding on the back of a donkey or two thanks to ever-friendly Kurds.
Yes. Childhood in the Middle East...
Then our second traumatic birth- yours in Skokie, mine in San Jose, Ca. after a pit stop in Chicago.
After reading your post I really think we could put together an anthology of sorts depicting the immigrant Assyrian experience. "What it was like, what happened, and what it's like now"- as we say in recovery.
It would be a valuable collection and worthwhile.
Start writing folks...

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...my grandpa... beezelbub - Monday, October 24 2005, 16:40:29 (CEST)
- Re: ...my grandpa... Maggie - 10/24 18:58
  - Re: ...my grandpa... beezelbub - 10/24 19:12
    - Re: ...my grandpa... Maggie - 10/24 21:24
      - Re: ...my grandpa... Emil - 10/25 03:58
- Re: ...my grandpa...AND YOUR GRANDPA...were sitting by the fire Kris K. - 10/25 22:13
  - Re: ...my grandpa...AND YOUR GRANDPA...were sitting by the fire Maggie - 10/25 23:59
    - Re: ...my grandpa...AND YOUR GRANDPA...were sitting by the fire Emil - 10/26 03:34
      - Re: ...my grandpa...AND YOUR GRANDPA...were sitting by the fire Kris K. - 10/26 05:54
      - Re: Emelian memories in Bet-Nahrain Maggie - 10/26 06:29
        Re: Emelian memories in Bet-Nahrain beezelbub - 10/26 06:39
        Re: Emelian memories in Bet-Nahrain Maggie - 10/26 07:06
        Re: Emelian memories in Bet-Nahrain Emil - 10/26 16:15
        Re: Emelian memories in Bet-Nahrain beezelbub - 10/26 17:32
        Re: Emelian memories in Bet-Nahrain Maggie - 10/26 19:53
        Re: Emelian memories in Bet-Nahrain beezelbub - 10/27 00:35
        
        Re: Emelian memories in Bet-Nahrain Maggie - 10/26 19:41
        Re: Emelian memories in Bet-Nahrain Ado - 10/26 20:05
      - Qisateh Qisateh Qisateh Ado - 10/26 16:42
        Re: Qisateh Qisateh Qisateh Ado - 10/26 16:44
        Re: Qisateh Qisateh Qisateh Maggie - 10/26 19:57
        
        Re: Qisateh Qisateh Qisateh Maggie - 10/26 19:56
        Re: Qisateh Qisateh Qisateh Ado - 10/26 20:00
        Re: Qisateh Qisateh Qisateh Emil - 10/26 20:56
        Re: Qisateh Qisateh Qisateh Maggie - 10/26 21:07
        Compiling Your Stories Emil - 10/26 22:44
        Re: Compiling Your Stories Maggie - 10/26 22:48
        
        Re: Qisateh Qisateh Qisateh Ado - 10/26 21:21
        ADO GAWAD Mr. Centric - 10/26 21:28
        Re: ADO GAWAD Ado - 10/26 21:46
        Re: ADO GAWAD Mr. Centric - 10/26 21:49
        
        Re: Qisateh Qisateh Qisateh Jeff - 10/27 04:38

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