Is there a limit to the amount of emotional anguish one person can handle? Mariam, 64, who lost her Karantina home, says yes. She survived the Lebanese civil war, poverty & breast cancer. But the #BeirutBlast has broken her, she says

Her story, her words https://link.medium.com/zB1foiWSh9 

"Even if they give us a house, a furnished house, and even if they provide us with money, I won't ever be happy again. This kind of shock never leaves you. It will never leave us."

moving pics by @lynnkchaya

"People say: everything that we lost, will come back to us. But really, how will these things come back to us? How can sanity come back to us?"

We also spoke to Desiree, Mariam's daughter. She saved Mariam by lifting her from the rubble & carrying her down two flights of stairs while also injured.

"I am young, and I can handle this. But my mum, she has been through too much. Too much for one person to handle"

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