In a ground-floor motel room suite in Irvine, Calif., two sisters in their twenties began to make afternoon tea as their mother and brother sat on the bed of their neatly organized room.
The family of four recently arrived from Turkey, where they waited for U.S amnesty for eight years after fleeing their home within the war zones of Baghdad, Iraq.
“I was in a bomb explosion in 2008,” said the younger of the sisters while displaying the scars on her left foot. “I was in the hospital for a year but will always be recovering from this.”
Her brother Qahtan shared that they had lost their other brother in a similar explosion just one year before the sister was injured….