Lost In Samarra
Beginning of paper
Dawn looked out the window hopelessly as the train rolled over the
Syria border. Her black lab, Billy, sat next to her, his tongue hanging out
in exhaustion. Dawn was remembering her long boring journey from
California headed to Iraq.
First, she got on a bus from her house in Sacramento, to the tr ....
Middle of paper
.... up in a crate. And here I am again
she thought, back on a train. Billy grunted his “I’m bored, I want to go to
sleep but you’re in my way grunt”. So Dawn scooted over and Billy lay down
with his hind legs out to the side, his nose on her lap, and fell asleep.
Dawn wondered why she had agreed to visit her mother and her mother’
s family in Iraq? Dawn’s mother had returned to her native homeland of
Iraq when Dawn was seven years old. She has kept in touch by writing, but
it ....
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Word count: 1720
Page count: 7 (approximately 250 words per page)
