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 ">https://link.medium.com/zB1foiWSh...
"Even if they give us a house, a furnished house, and even if they provide us with money, I won& #39;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?"
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