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Syrian doctor, granted permission to work just in time for the pandemic
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Syrian doctor, granted permission to work just in time for the pandemic
May 4, 2021
Article by: W.A.
Published in: Metro
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As I was standing at the Heathrow Airport arrivals gate waiting to be reunited with my husband and two children after three years of separation, I was a wreck.
I kept looking down because I was expecting my kids – who were nine and 11 when I last saw them – to be just as tall as when I left them.
When they eventually came around the corner, I initially didn’t recognise them.
It wasn’t until I saw my husband that I thought ‘where are my children?’ and they were actually in front of him but they’d changed so much.
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