The piazza has the town church and elementary school at one end. Next to the church, is the kindergarten and on the other side of the piazza past the garbage bins, recycling containers, plexiglass-covered bus stop, and post box sit a few historic houses.
I put on a new headscarf. I had just completed the third of six treatments and by now my head was nearly bald. A tumor and other complications were found in my right breast earlier in the year…
My name is Susan Karim, I was born in Iraq 27/01/1952. In 1980 there were three reasons that forced me to leave the country; Saddam Hussein, my mother and my mother in law (not necessarily in this order).
As I stand with Maria watching our children, playing side by side in the water streams of the park, I notice the beauty of her face. The canvas of her face has high-cheek bones and dark eyes. But it is the strength in Maria’s face that makes the bones more defined, the eyes more penetrating.
