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Apr 3, 2023Liked by Omar Sakr

thank you for this. my anneanne is also illiterate - her father sent her brothers to school but made her drop out when she was young because her education was not a priority. I have a very vivid memory of one of the rare times we got to spend together when I was a child, about four years old, when she showed me how to write our shared name in turkish, which she did very slowly and painstakingly in all capital letters. she had a little more english back then than she does these days, but verbal communication between us has always been limited - still in that moment I could feel her love for me and her pride in me, the way I do every time we talk, even if neither of us have the words to say all the things we feel for each other in a language the other would understand.

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