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today is the 27th of ramadan in the year 1442 ah i was born today some many years ago i remember there were many girls at home my auntie samaa and her friend randa and wala was my mom
i call my mother mama she was nine months pregnant with me on a night like this 33 years ago that night she was having iftar at her other sister rawaas house and just as mama was breaking her fast on soup her water broke and everything began
mama named me yousef which was her fathers name he died some time before i was born i guess the girls were all down in lebanon on vacation waiting for him and he arrived three days later but he arrived in a casket
but thats a long story so ill save it for another time.
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its raining today the weeds on the lawn are bolder in the rain i have to rip them out tomorrow and one of them especially hes an ugly one he really makes my stomach turn hes out by the driveway gnarling on the daffodils but i am going to get that little bitch im going to get him now right here and now beneath the sunday rain
i just went out there out in the rain out in my robe and slippers and socks i just walked right out and there he was and i bent down and even without my gloves and i pulled and pulled and broke him down to a stem
the roots are there but i will dig them out another time for now at least hes gone at least he knows i won at least he knows he isn’t welcome here he had two sisters and i pulled them too.
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