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Coming of age during the war
Mishka Moujabber
LebanonGALLERYCONVERSATION
The sheltered lives they had led were replaced with social and economic challenges they would never have faced otherwise.
My youth was spent in a country whose very fabric was torn to shreds repeatedly. The women of my country came of age with every crisis, every time their illusions destroyed.

The sheltered lives they had led were replaced with social and economic challenges they would never have faced otherwise. They found themselves running households and going to work as their husbands and fathers traveled to seek work in other countries.

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