1916, my brother, sister and i were all born here, my father, he had a Little Grocery store as a lot of arab immigrants did, he was seven years old when his father died, and he was in the street of damascus trying to support his mother and his two sisters, so he never got an education, but opened a Little Grocery store and the young men that used to hang out around the store loved him and he would send them to the library and he told them that he wanted books on certain topics and they would get them and he wanted number of maps, especially the middle east and europe, and the way in which the maps uh changed, the borders of countries breakdown from empires, the breakdown of the arab world, he was really just taken with the whole idea of the uh world, but particularly palestine, remember at the age of eight, and that would be 1941, he took me a side one day and he said to me, my daughter, he said this to me in arabic, at that time i couldnt speak arabic, but i understood what he was say
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