Lost In Samarra

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to the side, his nose on her lap, and fell asleep.

Dawn wondered why she had agreed to visit her mother and her mother’
s family in Iraq? Dawn’s mother had returned to her native homeland of
Iraq when Dawn was seven years old. She has kept in touch by writing, but
it’s not the same as seeing her mother’s loving smile and feeling her warm
presence.

In her mother’s last letter, she asked Dawn to come to her home in
Mosul. Dawn didn’t know her mother’s family but knew that her mother left
Dawn and her father 5 years earlier to care for her ill grandmother in
Mosul, Iraq. Her mother is of the Muslim religion which is Islam. Islam
is the national religion of Iraq and 95% of the population are Muslims.
Two major Islamic groups live in Iraq: the Shiites and Sunnis. Even
though more than 50% are Shiites, the leaders of the party in power since
1968 are mostly Sunnis.

Dawn also remembers hearing about some pretty weird stuff going on
in Iraq from friends at school. She heard ...

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eyes looking
right at Dawn. She grabbed him by the collar and ran back to where she got
off the train and to her surprise, the train wasn’t there!

She knew she’d gone the right way back but the train was gone!!
She couldn’t believe it! In distress, she sat down by a river. She looked
at Billy in a grouchy way. After all, it was Billy who ran off the train!
Dawn thought to herself, maybe another train will come.

The two waited for three hours. No train arrived. Dawn got mad
and scared. She saw a big rock and picked it up and threw it in the river.
It soared through the air, releasing dirt before it hit the huge river.
Billy ran after it thinking it was a ball. When he came ...

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