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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London, Ontario, Canada

Amira

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

Do you accept to go to Canada?
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Hussein

Of course, here it is different...
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Wafa

The problem is that I forget a lot these days
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Mahasen

we stayed for two years in Jordan and they were very difficult years...
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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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Hallat

the priority was for Lebanese children...
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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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Hanan's husband

But here in Canada, it is different...
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Ibrahim

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Mohammed’s mother

Even our happiness feels different without the whole family.
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Abu Ali

All night, I sent them a reply of "Yes", I sent them 50,000 "Yes" messages.
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