Lilly's Recorded Voice

Someone else I talked to described it like this. Siri was on a different planet from the one he lived on now. There was no way to visit it. He had to flip a page, start a new life. Better not to think about it anymore. But now that the regime was suddenly gone, Syria was back on this planet, a place like any other place.

Someone else I talked to described it like this. Siri was on a different planet from the one he lived on now. There was no way to visit it. He had to flip a page, start a new life. Better not to think about it anymore. But now that the regime was suddenly gone, Syria was back on this planet, a place like any other place.

And they had to reset their minds to take that in, which was hard to do after so many years of doing the opposite. Salma started thinking about visiting home, not just in a dream way, but like the logistics of where she would stay when she went back.

And they had to reset their minds to take that in, which was hard to do after so many years of doing the opposite. Salma started thinking about visiting home, not just in a dream way, but like the logistics of where she would stay when she went back.

The euphoria of the regime falling was laced with heavy feelings, too. In the days following the collapse, Asselma learned just how many people who'd been disappeared by the Assad government had been killed, were not coming home. She had another panic attack. Salma's been watching all kinds of videos coming out of the new Syria.

The euphoria of the regime falling was laced with heavy feelings, too. In the days following the collapse, Asselma learned just how many people who'd been disappeared by the Assad government had been killed, were not coming home. She had another panic attack. Salma's been watching all kinds of videos coming out of the new Syria.

And there's a particular type that delights her, one I wasn't expecting.

And there's a particular type that delights her, one I wasn't expecting.

Watching these people just be silly and happy. For Selma, she sees that as getting to watch them finally be free.

Watching these people just be silly and happy. For Selma, she sees that as getting to watch them finally be free.

There's pretty much no way to overstate how much there is to do next, how many things will need to be figured out, how many unknowns there are. But, one person told me, none of it could be worse than what we live through already.

There's pretty much no way to overstate how much there is to do next, how many things will need to be figured out, how many unknowns there are. But, one person told me, none of it could be worse than what we live through already.