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Home coming

We share the same birthday, the 12th of Khordad. And, for nearly two and a half years we were best friends. For two of those

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Like holding my pillow

I have deliberately stayed away from knowing anything about all the raucous surrounding her. I haven't read her interviews. Was she rude or insensitive in

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Standing ovation

They said she was sent by Khatami. They said the reformists were behind her tour. They said the conservatives were to benefit the most by

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Our best bet

It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon on a cloudy June day when Sir Denis Wright greeted me outside Haddenham Station in Buckinghamshire. “I'm

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Ahl-e Abyaneh

Naneh Noghli and her friends put on their best costumes every day and sit at the doorsteps of their mud houses from sunrise to sundown.

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Eat, sleep, nose job

As I walk in the street it amazes me to see the number of people who have broken noses. We could make the Guinness Book

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Frozen in time

Thank you for surprising me this morning by putting that time-infested ad in your Nostalgia section. Also my thanks to Mr. Kamal Noori, the sender

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