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Writing from home
Rachel Secunda

Waiting for Friday

Some days you can try to close your eyes and ears to the world and the war and just focus on your immediate family and your life.

But in order to do that you can’t listen to the radio in the morning where they interview the families of hostages. Or the families of soldiers who have been killed. Or the families who have been displaced from northern Israel because of continued bombings from Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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Writing from home
Rachel Secunda

Day 12

It has been nearly two weeks.
Somehow time has managed to crawl by and speed past.
We have been living in a weird alternate reality.
There isn’t any routine. School is still not functional.
Rockets are still falling. My kids discuss how many ‘booms’ they have heard each day.

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