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It was my sister, Lizzie, who told me. Her voice-transmitted through telephone lines that ran underneath seas and borders from Sha'ariya, our Yemeni … - Ayelet Tsabari
" "It was my sister, Lizzie, who told me. Her voice-transmitted through telephone lines that ran underneath seas and borders from Sha'ariya, our Yemeni neighborhood at the edge of a suburb east of Tel Aviv, to this guesthouse counter in the Thai island of Ko Pha-ngan-echoed faintly.
"Zohara," she said. Not Zorki, I noted. "You have to come home." You have to come home, a tinny version of her repeated.
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Ayelet Tsabari is an Israeli-Canadian writer.
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