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Someone crossing the border back into their homeland as a child. The family sound helpless and anxious.
The adults are very emotional about crossing the border back to their homeland and the narrator can't understand why it's so important to them when things look the same on both sides of the border.
It is actually supposed to be the border between Iraq and Iran, it is a kurdish family who had fleed Iraq and Saddam Hussein, and are now returning. Choman Hardi (the poet) was born in Iraqi controlled Kurdistan in 1974. She was 1 month old when her family fled to Iran and 5 years old when they returned.
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