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Life
First city
Honolulu is home now - among other homes
By Majid Tehranian
February 9, 2000
The Iranian
I live in Honolulu. But my journey began in Mashhad, Iran, where I was
born eons ago. Today as I listened to the murmur of the rain falling on
rooftops, looking out my window at the misty Diamond Head and the roaring
Pacific beyond, a feeling of nostalgia set in. I was banished to paradise
in 1981 to stay here only for a year. Life' s mysterious design had brought
and kept me here. It is home now, among other homes - Mashhad, Tehran,
Hanover, Cambridge, Oxford, Paris, and now Honolulu - seven cities in all.
I had wandered from city to city as a migrating bird. But I had no destination
in mind. The journey was the thing ...
The most vivid memory of my childhood is the piercing pain I felt in
my toes when I was walking with my mother along the narrow, stone-laden
streets of Mashhad. It had snowed heavily the night before, and streets
were filled with slush, penetrating into my little shoes and toes as we
walked fast to reach home from my grandparents' house >>>
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Chapter Two
As Wes exited the parking area, no other cars were on the highway. As
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him to forget his sorrow. Life was a pain-filled void and now he sensed
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It was nine years since he had been in Israel. He was then researching
the history on the West Bank. Now, Walker turned on the car 's interior
light and unfolded the paper given to him. After reading a Chicago telephone
number, a woman's name, and a street address in The Old City of Jerusalem,
Wes turned his Cadillac to the side of the Keystone Highway. Blessed with
a photographic memory, he lighted the paper with a gold-platted, cigarette
lighter, and dropped the paper into the car's ashtray >>>
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A man and his wife went to bed one night and the man was getting very
frisky and asked his wife if she was in the mood. His wife answered, "Not
tonight dear I have a headache." The man replied, "Is that your
final answer?" She said "Yes." And the man said, "OK,
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Last Sunday (February 6) I had the opportunity to see the final match
of the wrestling
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of George Mason University in FairFax,Virginia.
I must confess that I have never seen any wrestling matches in person.
But as a child in Iran , I saw many great wrestling matches on TV and flet
the excitement and the sheer tension between the Iranian, Russian and American
wrestlers.
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of the world champions in this year's event. The Iranian team included
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Seventh city
The rain had stopped. The sun was shining. Trees were still wet, drenched
in there luminous green, greener than any green I have seen anywhere. I
looked at the sky. The clouds were drifting away revealing an ocean of blue.
And the ocean was reflecting the blue of the sky with a thousand glittering
shades of color. Diamond Head sat at the foot of the ocean like a naked
goddess. I had reached my seventh city [Honolulu].
-- Majid Tehranian
"First
city"
The Iranian
February 9, 2000
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