For Some Iraqis, Vacations Bring Relief

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"Yes, we are Iraqis who live in Iraq. But we feel like strangers-as if it is not our home," she said. "It's killing me that I cannot practice my private life with my husband and girls."

"Biscuits (cookies) and tea-it does not cost a lot," the 37-year-old Iraqi woman said. "Gossip is women's life, and I am glad to get my life back again."

"Here I feel I am myself, because I can do anything I want," she said, putting on a stylish hat that left locks of her dyed-blonde hair flowing loose. "But back in Baghdad I have to wear the veil to keep the militants' eyes away from me."

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For Some Iraqis, Vacations Bring Relief

(SWS)-Reem al-Jawad can't take her young daughters to see Iraq's "great and famous Tigris and Euphrates" rivers - it's too dangerous, she believes. So the 34-year-old Iraqi housewife brought her mother ...

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