don’t know if I could have survived seven years of my childhood without the soul-saving rituals of my Persian culture.
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don’t know if I could have survived seven years of my childhood without the soul-saving rituals of my Persian culture.
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But where was that mythical village and the rituals that made it sane? For example, a pregnant woman in Iran had a rotating menu of dishes made for her by friends and family.
In Iran friends family and community help raise the baby while the mother is recovering from child birth but in the United States te mother recovering from child birth is expected to fend herself.