![]() After a long hike, he had arranged for a candlelit dinner in the wilderness. When she was in her 30s, and newly married to an American man living in Lebanon, they went camping in Jordan. We spent so much time studying by candlelight after school.” ![]() ![]() “I don’t do well in romantic settings,” said my friend Nadine Rasheed, a 40-year-old product developer who now lives in New York. We grew up during Lebanon’s civil war and are now adults trying to live normal lives, raising our own families as the country crashes and burns yet again.įor my generation, emotional minefields can surround the most mundane activities even 32 years since the war ended. But war can be boring for long stretches, and you pass the time by falling back on the trite and familiar.īut some of those same crutches used to make it through a childhood scarred by conflict - like endless board games - are now a source of trauma for me and my friends. Yes, war is pulverized buildings, the screech of ambulances, blood, funerals.
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