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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Amira

For us, we do not consider Syria as a home anymore.
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Hassan

Syria was a nice, safe country, but it felt a temporary stop from fleeing Iraq...
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Mahdi

The worrying is multiplied when you have a family.
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Khawla

My older son remembers...
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Jumana

I am going to leave all my friends.
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Nasim

It is a bit better now but it is still bad
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Rabia

These are the things that we do to keep us going
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Nairuz

So he was the first of our family to leave Syria, when he was 18 years old.
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Safwan

I worked as an Uber driver only to improve my English, to get out of the house, and to make some money
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Nabiha

... if you ask anybody here, they will tell you that the key to this country is the English language.
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Nabil

But the first step is to learn the language...
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Eliana

...it will not be easy for them to go back...
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