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Common ground found
on unfamiliar soil

Abstract:
Sitting on her lap, locking her gray hair strands around my little fingers, I remember counting with "si nana," my grandmother.

One, two, three.

"Ze, 'tu, sh'e," and the anxious 6-year-old kid I was couldn't wait to learn how to count to 10 - to count in Circassian like si nana did....

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D.

posted 5/05/08 @ 9:46 AM PST

I was doing a random search when I came across this article. Just wanted to say it was well written. I am a Circassian as well and I can say that a lot of these emotions you write about are things I came across myself throughout my life. Keep up the good work, take care.

P.S. Would the guy in Monterey's name be Yanal?

Wizinshu we shet, Adiga pshasha :)

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