Ben C. Solomon
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I think he knew as soon as he started talking to them that this is not my son. And I think that was really tough to see.
I think he knew as soon as he started talking to them that this is not my son. And I think that was really tough to see.
I think he knew as soon as he started talking to them that this is not my son. And I think that was really tough to see.
I mean, it was just a two-minute call, but in those few minutes, there was just these long pauses where he just kind of waited to kind of hear this man's voice and just think about what to say next. I mean, it was really hard to kind of see him slowly realize that this is not his son and that this is the end of his search.
I mean, it was just a two-minute call, but in those few minutes, there was just these long pauses where he just kind of waited to kind of hear this man's voice and just think about what to say next. I mean, it was really hard to kind of see him slowly realize that this is not his son and that this is the end of his search.
I mean, it was just a two-minute call, but in those few minutes, there was just these long pauses where he just kind of waited to kind of hear this man's voice and just think about what to say next. I mean, it was really hard to kind of see him slowly realize that this is not his son and that this is the end of his search.
So many people were posting the same photo and their son next to it and their brother and their cousin. They thought it was their relative. it was hard to see these faces over and over of so many people seeing their sons. People were desperate. Like this is a country of desperate people with no information and for years just had given up hope. Like these are just,
So many people were posting the same photo and their son next to it and their brother and their cousin. They thought it was their relative. it was hard to see these faces over and over of so many people seeing their sons. People were desperate. Like this is a country of desperate people with no information and for years just had given up hope. Like these are just,
So many people were posting the same photo and their son next to it and their brother and their cousin. They thought it was their relative. it was hard to see these faces over and over of so many people seeing their sons. People were desperate. Like this is a country of desperate people with no information and for years just had given up hope. Like these are just,
hundreds if not thousands of sulimans who just believed that this could be their family member and it was just you know he had bushy eyebrows and he was gaunt and he and he looked like a face that so many people could just see their love in and see their hope in so in some ways it was really inspiring and in other ways it was really really hard to hear and see
hundreds if not thousands of sulimans who just believed that this could be their family member and it was just you know he had bushy eyebrows and he was gaunt and he and he looked like a face that so many people could just see their love in and see their hope in so in some ways it was really inspiring and in other ways it was really really hard to hear and see
hundreds if not thousands of sulimans who just believed that this could be their family member and it was just you know he had bushy eyebrows and he was gaunt and he and he looked like a face that so many people could just see their love in and see their hope in so in some ways it was really inspiring and in other ways it was really really hard to hear and see
Well, Suiman, he's kind of back to just the same place he started years and years ago, unfortunately. He doesn't know. There's no information. I still think part of him holds on to hope a little bit.
Well, Suiman, he's kind of back to just the same place he started years and years ago, unfortunately. He doesn't know. There's no information. I still think part of him holds on to hope a little bit.
Well, Suiman, he's kind of back to just the same place he started years and years ago, unfortunately. He doesn't know. There's no information. I still think part of him holds on to hope a little bit.
I think even though he kind of has to say goodbye to this hope, to this moment, there's still a part of him that wants to think that maybe he's still out there and maybe there's something he doesn't know. This is not just Suleiman's story, it's the story of so many people in Syria.
I think even though he kind of has to say goodbye to this hope, to this moment, there's still a part of him that wants to think that maybe he's still out there and maybe there's something he doesn't know. This is not just Suleiman's story, it's the story of so many people in Syria.
I think even though he kind of has to say goodbye to this hope, to this moment, there's still a part of him that wants to think that maybe he's still out there and maybe there's something he doesn't know. This is not just Suleiman's story, it's the story of so many people in Syria.
I mean, you hope so much that there's some happy endings for people like Suleiman, but there's some hope that so much of the suffering will have meant something. But as the new country just tries to rebuild itself from decades of pain and silence and war, it's hard to know what happens next.
I mean, you hope so much that there's some happy endings for people like Suleiman, but there's some hope that so much of the suffering will have meant something. But as the new country just tries to rebuild itself from decades of pain and silence and war, it's hard to know what happens next.