Holly Dagris

And she's like, Mom, why do you keep calling?

Everything's fine here.

She's like, I'm afraid that I won't see your face for a long time again.

Absolutely.

And, you know, just the other week we had these tit-for-tat strikes that happened.

The first, I think, was the one between Iran and Israel over Lebanon.

And I remember some of the commentary at that time was this real deep fear.

And I'll read some of what Iranians said during that 48-hour span where we thought that there might be a resumption of the war.

So someone said, please don't start a war.

I don't want to be unemployed for another three months.

Another Iranian said, I'm another internet shutdown in Iran away from a psychiatric hospital.

And then there was, I'm not afraid of missiles.

I'm afraid of going offline.

And I'm scared to sleep and wake up in the morning to no internet.

And then there were other ones that were Iranians that were just using dark humor or just making light of the situation.

And these also stood out to me.

Now is the best time to use the excuse of the internet shutdown to get that pretty girl's number.

And then there was, I'm against war for now because I can't accept that I've seen three wars and in all three I've been single.

And then finally, I said to my friend in Iran, what are you doing?

He said, downloading and saving porn.