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The strange things we learn to call normal

I arrived back in the UAE to be welcomed by a missile alert . It was just hours after the aeroplane’s wheels touched the runway and while our children played in the communal pool. The kids jumped out, knowing the drill well by now, and asked many questions about why alerts were following us around the world while dripping water all over…

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