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My first Facebook friend
The story of how Sheba became her mother's first Facebook friend.
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It's on Facebook that Sheba realises that her mother is a sad woman. Over the years, a distance has grown between them. Sheba had left Iraq just before 9/11. After that, of course, there was no possibility of them meeting. Every year, since 2001, Sheba had gone to the US Embassy. Every single time they had said the same thing to her: Visa Denied. If she left the US to go to Iraq, she would not be allowed back in. And her mother? Well, she suffered no better fate. She couldn't even get an appointment with the US Embassy in Baghdad.
Mother and daughter have not seen each other in over six years. During the first few years, Sheba had felt like her mother had abandoned her.
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