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She showed us where it was - and we<br />
saw it for the first time - in 1992, since<br />
the road had been blocked before that.<br />
She came to Lebanon in 1967, and worked<br />
as a pediatrician at the German hospital<br />
facing the St. George hotel<br />
I’ve often tried to ask her more about that period<br />
At the time, he was supposed to marry his<br />
older and younger brothers’ wives’ sister<br />
She met her first husband through mutual<br />
friends<br />
And every time, she replies:<br />
How could you<br />
have forgotten<br />
the cardboard<br />
box you slept in?<br />
But all I remember is a wooden bed<br />
In this way, she entered the Arabist intellectual society<br />
One day, my mom came back from the hospital,<br />
and we had to be quiet, because the babies in<br />
her tummy were dead.<br />
and a dream I woke up from screaming:<br />
Give me a<br />
stream of<br />
water!<br />
And chose Beirut as the place to live out her dreams.<br />
Since that day in summer 1982, we haven’t heard of Karim and Karma
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