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I still recall your laughter – graceful like a gazelle on the farm – when I said that I would build us a large two-storey house, to be filled with olives and oranges and akkoub and anemones\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">and that I would set aside a piece of land for you to plant your heart in; and we imagined, if your heart could be planted, how bright and beautiful its flowers would be.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">We would reap a bountiful harvest. I wagered that if we gave some to the high commissioner, some to the army commander in our area, and lots and lots to the soldiers, it would allow me to go to work freely; it would set all of Palestine free!\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">Without spilling a drop of their blood, we will watch as they remember the eyes of the dead and the way they were killed, and you will see how kindness slays an entire army of murderers.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">I will tell you why I love Palestine\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">but every time I try, I hear that yet another friend was killed.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">I am now at a delayed funeral, ready to carry coffins on my shoulders \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">and to commit the mourners’ words to memory.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">I remember when I confessed my love to you; you said it was the worst way for a suitor to confess his love, and we laughed.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">I am not a stone\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">and the rocks on my path were never easy or smooth; they made me a young man who picks flowers from the graveyard for his beloved.\u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0cm;\">All my loved ones are in the cemetery, killed by bullets and the hateful hearts of soldiers. 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