baklawa
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Returning Home
Ashuriena is packing her things and making sure she has everything she needs for her big move: wedding dress (check), honeymoon lingerie (check), a bag full of antibiotics (check), all necessary paperwork (check). At 40 she was doing something she never thought she'd do -- returning to the homeland to marry the man of her dreams. Well, maybe "returning" is not the right word considering she was born in LA. And man of her dreams....well, Jacob is a man, so that's always good. He's not bad looking...although that unibrow is hard to overlook. As is his back hair. But he's quite nice, he did offer his hand to help her up when she tripped over a rock and landed face-first in the Zab river. But at this point in her life, she really felt that this was her last option. She just couldn't handle the life of a spinster any longer, and she had little tolerance left for her overbearing parents, Barwarneta and Ashoor. So after years of enduring their endless nagging, unsolicited and rude comments from old Assyrian women, numerous blind dates with men who made her run for the hills (she almost decked the last one, manuel50, after he made his disgust of Assyrian women clear and made sure she knew that he expected her to wait on him hand and foot after marriage), she decided to take up her parents' proposal of meeting the son of their good friends in Nohadra.