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Feb52006

Lily is 8

Birthday party in the garage (it's the biggest room we have): fourteen kids, nine Iradi and five American, balloons, a pinata that took fifteen minutes to break because they were all too polite to hit it first. Chynara's sister brought a cake with a horse on it, made with icing and a lot of patience.

I'll never forget the sight of eight-year-olds in kalpaks and cowboy hats, shouting in a mix of two languages, running under a pinata. They didn't need translation.