Lebanon Stories

In my story "Summer of '76 in the Nurses Home," I mentioned at the end that I went off to nurse in hot spots and war zones. So here I was, sitting in the shade of summer vines in the Beka'a Valley with a young woman, Safiya, telling me; "Il y a beaucoup des veuves de guerre dans notre villages; je suis seul, moi-meme." That is; "There are many war widows in our village, I am on my own myself." I was working in a hospital...