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The Christians had been theaway of relations between Christian and Muslied for the worse Turkish soldiers under sanctioned authority drove between one million and two million Armenian Christians on death marches into the desert to die

Soher Even to the current era over a hundred years later the Turkish government still denied that the Armenian Genocide ever took place, but such a refusal to claim responsibility for past misdeeds did not do aith all the evidence of their past actions, which offer their own testimony as did the testimony of those who survived

Zora had survived Somehow my precious love had survived this hell on Earth scene that lay all around me that stretched out as far as the eye could see

As the h the hot sand littered with the corpses oftrails through the sand stopped one by one, until there was only one trail that continued on

The desert grew dark and cold and rounding a corner I saw theround shivering, as she hugged herself for warht There was no hope in the child's eyes Eyes that reflected an e to behold

Zora the woround plane of her re down at the earlier version of her herself that lay shivering on the sand A little girl's soul shattered by the atrocities of mankind

I stepped up and wrapped ly

"You're not that scared all alone in the world girl any this terrible memory I'll protect you I promise"

She turned her face and pressed it into my neck in search of comfort and closeness as she breathed out, "I know"

She was quiet for a , "My Papa told e every misconception I had about what men were and that I would be happy in his ar of her words and I held her all the hter to me

"Are you happy Zora?"

She turned and hooked her arms around my neck and nodded with her eyes ith tears, "Very happy! But I have a bone to pick with you Mister!"