“How would this all work out, this family is going to fall apart very soon, who would help with the baby.” she wondered. This is the story of my mom’s solution to her father’s death. My mom said that it happened at a very wrong time. Especially since it all happened at the age of eleven in a very dangerous area in Iraq.
It started off when she was in a very odd situation with her mom, they fought most of the time so they thought the best solution was to stay away for a while until they figured everything out. So my mom moved in with her grandparents. My grandma was pregnant with my aunt at the time. She stated, “Everyone was stressed for different reasons”. All the light they had in the family was controlled by my grandpa. “He had to go to work every day to keep a roof under our heads, but he still managed to help the unfortunate,” my mom always says.
left. She said at that time she felt the one fear she had, the life loss of a loved one.
He was missing for forty days and the family was drowning in curiosity. As time moved on, two men came at their door with news. They were forensicist Scientists that heard about the missing dad and had a lead but they needed to make sure it was him. Her family saw him and quickly noticed him by his chipped tooth he had.
After the forensics finished their job, they came back with news about what they thought had happened. They said there were two murderers that took his car, shot him in the head after tying him to a chair and threw him in the Euphrates River. They traced him back to the end of the river after being demolished by the fish. My grandma finally gave birth to my aunt and named her the name that my grandpa always loved, Kamar meaning moon “ That was the beginning of the rest of my life”, she said.
– Shams Sami