- Gin and Juche
- Apr 3, 2008
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The Highest Judge of Paradise
Shiki Eiki
YAMAXANADU
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quote:BAGHDAD — Having sold his car for $4,600, and then some of his wife’s jewelry, and having loaded his smartphone with photographs of his five children, all that was left for Haider Abdella to do was say goodbye.
“From yesterday to today, we are crying,” he said.
His mother sat next to him on the couch, sobbing. “He’s never left me before, from when he was a child until now,” she said. “How can I bear him leaving?”
Mr. Abdella, 42, a police officer, had never left Iraq — never even seen the sea. But last week, he was on a plane to Istanbul, and from there traveled to the coastal resort city of Izmir, Turkey. A day later, he was on a smuggler’s boat to Greece, crying and praying over the phone with his family left behind in Baghdad. By the weekend, he told them, he was well on his way to Germany.
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For now, he has been using the Viber app to communicate with his family in Belgium, where they are living in a migration camp.
With the journey behind them, his family is adjusting to life in exile, and to the little differences between life there and life here. Meal timing has been one jarring change for his family in Belgium, Mr. Azzawi said.
There, breakfast is served at 7 a.m. “That is too early for us,” he said.
Dinner is at 6 p.m. “We like to eat at 10,” he said.
The food itself is sometimes strange. His family sends photographs of their meals. One showed what looked to be a pile of lasagna with a dollop of mayonnaise. “They didn’t eat it,” he said. “They don’t know what it is.”
He sends them back photographs of their favorite Iraqi dishes, “to make them jealous.”
Those monsters.
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- exmarx
- Feb 18, 2012
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The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
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