They are the only thing that remind me of my previous life. The cruel life that I had to live in It was a very dark world. I asked my dad about the coins. I asked “why are the coins important to you?” He said:
It was very hard moving on from Iraq. I was born there. I lived there for most of my life, and then the war came, and I had to protect all of you. There was nothing else I could’ve done. So I got a visa and we went to Jordan together. They are important to me because they highlighted a new start of our lives. We turned a page in the book and it became real for us. That’s why” (Jaleel). I started collecting coins when we started our new lives in Jordan. I had a thing in mind. I always thought if I ever move to another country I would have these coins to remind me of my childhood. I did that. Its been with me for about 9 years now, and I will keep it forever. The thing is that I will never ever leave this because I made a