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Elif Shafak

“If you go to Cyprus today, you can still find tombstones of Greek widows and Turkish widows, engraved in different alphabets but with a similar plea:

If you find my husband, please bury him next to me.”

Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
tags: civil-war, death
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The Island of Missing Trees The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
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