Issue 1

My mother stayed in our home on the Corniche
And Reem:
Watches Lena and
Mona
Mona:
Feeds Tommy
Yasmine:
Prepares food *
Lena:
Throws out
the trash
Omar:
Hangs laundry
out to dry
*cake or donuts every day, crepes or burgers or spaghetti with pine-nuts and yogurt once a week
And learnt how to cook and other traditions from her mother-in-law, who stayed and helped her.
And planted geraniums and hortensias
on the balcony
She decorated her home with glass fish
*
Meanwhile, my dad would be thinking
My mom would be at the clinic at 7:30 every morning
* Gemayel, Karami, Jumblatt, Berri
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Now, at 7:30 a.m., she sits in her armchair and calls us, one after the other.
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Geagea, Berri, Aoun, Jumblatt
She ran the house like a tight ship whose engine was: us