Quotes From Firoozeh Mamas's Funny In Farsi '

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“We remember the kindness more than ever, knowing that our relatives who immigrated to this country after the Iranian Revolution did not encounter the same America.” From Firoozeh Dumas’s Funny in Farsi. This quote tells us something about her Dumas’s childhood. This quote says something about what she went through as an immigrant versus her relatives experience moving to America from Iran was different.
“We remember the kindness more than ever, knowing that our relatives who immigrated to this country after the Iranian Revolution did not encounter the same America.” From Firoozeh Dumas’s Funny in Farsi. This quote this quote adds to the portrait of Dumas as a child. Dumas’s childhood and relationship with the locals was likely pretty easy

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