REORIENT:

I came across a stack of my mom’s Armenian and Persian records in some storage at my family’s home in San Francisco. None of them had been played since my family moved here from Iran around 40 years ago, so it was definitely an emotional experience playing it all for my mom and nana after so long. These records hold a lot of memories – as a lot of sentimental objects that immigrated with them do – and the last ones of them were from the Armenian community in Iran they lived in. So, in a way, it was special recreating something with the records here. My mom had mentioned that these were very close to not being packaged and making it out here; but she finally decided to make it work and pack them all under her suitcases. ‘I never imagined while collecting these that I would have a daughter who would listen to and play these for me, and that it wouldn’t be in Iran’, she said.

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