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Hi my name is Zara. My Dad is from England and my Mom's from Iraq and I was
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born in England. When I was about 7 years old, my Mum was like, "Hey maybe we should
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go to Iraq, I've not seen my family in so long. So, maybe we should pay them a visit.
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And maybe we could stay there for a while." My Dad was like, " no are you out of your your mind?"
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"Like that's where the war is going on." My Mom was like, "Yeah, well that's where I
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was born that's where I was raised." So my Dad finally agrees and me, my Mom, my Dad
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and my sisters and brothers went there. Everything was fine until I was
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about nine years old. I remember it was about 4 a.m. and then I was woken up to the sound of screams and crying.
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And I was like "what what's going on? This isn't right. "
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So I decided to look out my window and I see fire.
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I see a building on fire. I rushed to my Mom's room and I grabbed
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her by the hand I rushed back to my room and I show her the fire. She screamed and
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she woke everyone up and she was having a panic attack.
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Soon enough we realized that our city has been attacked.
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About a few weeks later, we were running low and supplies because we'd been in
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the house the whole time trying to avoid the war. And then my Dad was like, "okay we
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are low on food we can't live like this we are gonna die in here if we don't get anymore."
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My dad and my sister go out and they go and get food. It was about four days since they'd went out to get some food.
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And my Mum and I and my brothers
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started panicking. Drew was just like "something has happened they are not okay!"
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I just lost all my hope and I was like, "well there's nothing to do now let's
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just pray to God and see what happens."
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But then a miracle happened. My Dad came back from the house and without my sister.
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He was just crying and he was really injured...
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...without my sister... I've realized why God has taken it up
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and I realized that she'll be by my side no matter what.
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Soon after that we move back to England and now I'm 13 years old and I live a happy life.
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Life is good and just know if you're
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going through warring thing it will get better...