Rumeysa: “You were just babies then!” she said. “What?” I said. “You were just babies in the war, like the ones upstairs!” I nodded that this was true. We had been foolish virgins in the war, right at the end of childhood.

“You were just babies then!” she said. “What?” I said. “You were just babies in the war, like the ones upstairs!” I nodded that this was true. We had been foolish virgins in the war, right at the end of childhood.