Syrian or Lebanese?, Mike asked me late one evening, wondering what I was in the mood for. Syrian! A glimmer in my eyes, I replied instantly, already excited at the prospect. (Side Note: Something you might not know about Mike is that he was born here in Kuwait and left the country as a young child with his family to live in Syria – his mother’s homeland – after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in the early 1990s. He still has several childhood friends here.) That night, Mike and I were going out to dinner with one of his friends that he had reconnected with […]
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