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Ringing in the year 1390

By POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

SANTA FE, N.M. March 1981. My mother, all curves and decorum in her uptight Chanel suit, and my father, all stutter, glasses and advanced degrees, walked into an Alhambra, Calif., apartment: two bedrooms, one bathroom, furnished, $450 a month. It’s not nice—it’s not Paris of the last several months, no Teheran of the ’70s—but they took it. Everything is going to be different, but just for now, they kept telling ...

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  • Headline: Ringing in the year 1390
  • Publication: Perspective, Pages 79 on 03/27/2011
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