I was on the phone with a friend in his junior year at my alma mater, UNC Chapel Hill, discussing his campus work and future goals, when his roommates relayed the news and he stopped, suddenly, and said: “Mariem, Deah and his wife were shot. They are dead.”
A ping of utter shock struck. Then dismissal. Denial. Thinking I must have misheard, I asked, “You’re kidding, right?”
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