With Fadi’s business aspirations, she suspected he would continue to find an excuse to delay traveling. The girls would have to be in college before she could have the freedom to go anywhere. But hadn’t freedom been the reason she’d gotten married to begin with? She’d been so desperate to leave home and start anew with Fadi. She’d chosen this life. She wasn’t like Mama, stuck in a foreign country with no income or education, denied the luxury of self-determination. This was all her choice, her doing. Lately, she wondered, though: Had she decided on this particular path for herself, or had
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