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44 Suicidal Stars Each summer you watched shooting stars dive into the Caspian Sea and wondered why they chose to leave their heaven home for those cold waters, gray and full of djinn, where drowned Russian and Iranian children met.You stood on the soft feather sand thinking, the sea’s so deep it takes in world after world. Years later, when doctors, professors, and architects fled Iran to become dishwashers and taxi drivers in a faraway land, you understood the stars’ plight, their plunge, their headlong fall. ...

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