"Grandpa told me that ever since the year I was born, the gunfire in the city of Damascus has never stopped!"
"I've never seen my dad. Mom said that before I was born, Dad was already gone..."
"Mom also left early and didn't have time to teach me to read."
"I don't know Arabic. Grandpa taught me to write. Grandpa only knows Aramaic, and I learned it from him."
"Grandpa is a superhero. He could always find food and a safe place for us to hide."
"But every time he came back, he was covered in bruises... he lied to me and said it was nothing, that he fell by himself. I knew... he was beaten by someone, because one time..."
"Last winter, we hadn't eaten for a long time. Someone wanted to buy me with a bag of rice flour, but Grandpa refused..."
"We are at Damascus, Syria Red Cross 201..."
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