“Today, Karim asked me why the moon follows us. I said, ‘Because it loves you.’ He said, ‘No, Mama, because it’s shy and wants to hide behind buildings.’ I laughed so hard I cried.”
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She began with the day her son Yousef was born — his tiny fingers wrapping around hers. Then Laila’s first word, “Mama,” not “Baba.” Then little Karim’s obsession with stars and how he would count them from the balcony. “Today, Karim asked me why the moon follows us