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I think she went through something similar, and she tried all the hairdos Lebanese women wore.<br />
As a teenager, she chopped<br />
her hair off<br />
When she was a bit older,<br />
she wrapped them around<br />
her head<br />
As a girl, she had pigtails<br />
I’ve seriously tried to understand what my father means when he says:<br />
I should always remind<br />
myself that I didn’t marry<br />
an Oriental woman<br />
It’s 7:30, do<br />
you want<br />
anything?<br />
I’m going<br />
And as the kidnapping of<br />
foreigners increased, she<br />
dyed it brown<br />
In the eighties, she grew it<br />
down past her shoulders<br />
When she came<br />
to Lebanon, it was<br />
really short<br />
I tried to separate the Oriental and the Western in her by comparing her to “Oriental” mothers<br />
And she works a lot<br />
She gets angry in a<br />
flash<br />
She invents inedible<br />
meals<br />
My mother sometimes uses<br />
a strange language when<br />
she talks on the phone<br />
Which brought out the<br />
color and shine of her eyes<br />
After that, I thought hard about how to get rid of the “foreign” features of my face<br />
highlights french manicure Lenses<br />
High-heeled boots<br />
Till now, I haven’t discovered the exact elements of the Lebanese look<br />
I never understood what he<br />
means by Oriental woman<br />
Social<br />
chitchat<br />
and gossip?<br />
Coffee and<br />
cigarettes?<br />
Black<br />
eyes?<br />
Obedience?<br />
Dancing?<br />
Painted<br />
toenails?<br />
...Later, she told me the story of how she had resolved this East-West<br />
problem, and that it had endangered her life.
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