Making Home Away

So I sat them down and told them: the five of us are here, me, you and your father, wherever the five of us are, that place should be your heaven.
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Inaam

Current 'home'
Jordan
Journey time
Seven years
This is my fate and I have to accept it. I even started planting a garden.
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Hanan's husband

Current 'home'
London, Ontario, Canada
Journey time
Seven years
But here in Canada, it is different...
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Abiha

Current 'home'
Athens, Greece
It was the Greek police. The Greek police imprisoned us.
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Iman

Current 'home'
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Look, my hairs are standing. Because I feel like my body is over here, but my mind is back in Syria.
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Amira

Current 'home'
London, Ontario, Canada
Journey time
Four years
For us, we do not consider Syria as a home anymore.
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