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3rd Movement The goldfish on the haft-sin table is as far from home as my family in exile. My life whirls: DC, Baltimore, Chicago, LA, colleges, love affairs, broken hearts, homes, disappointments, celebrations. Twenty, thirty, forty, a hundred . . . I’m a thousand years old and still the seven-sin table in my mother’s house remains unchanged: sabzeh—samanu—senjed—seer—seeb—som– aq—serkeh 72 ...

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