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I used all my frequent flier miles to get my dad a First-Class ticket to Beirut in April 2006. He called me when he arrived and told me that First-Class was definitely the way to fly. It was his first and last time flying First-Class. My dad died in our home in Lebanon on August …

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Immigrant Stories – Day 2

My father was born in Khederbek, Turkey in 1939. Khederbek (aka Kheder Bey) is one of six Armenian Villages in Musa Dagh (a mountain in Turkey). In 1915 it was the location of a successful Armenian resistance to the Armenian #Genocide, an event that inspired Franz Werfel to write the novel The Forty Days of …

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