mom update

No chemo needed.
Next scan in four months.

rooftops of cairo

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-rooftops29nov29,1,7419742.story?coll=la-headlines-world

Funny how lives end up. Alia Qotb was born in the basement of this building and now she's living on its roof. In between she bore seven children, visited a fine Beirut hotel, kept house for a Saudi princess. Her first husband stole her heart. By day he painted walls, at night he took his easel to the bridges over the Nile and made portraits. He willed life into art, and a man who can do that is a man she'll remember. But he's gone. They came together long ago, after that day she sewed him a shirt and he asked her brother for her hand in marriage.

She was 12.

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Dear Forever 21,

Please have your deisgners learn teh difference between cool Adam Ant inspired quasi-historical militaria and generic 80s-esque "I own a yacht" faux nauticalness. The first is awesome. The second doesn't look good no matter how much coke you've snorted.

Thanks!