On Tuesday, I left all my Syria WhatsApp groups and unsubscribed from Syria update emails and live trackers. Afterwards I felt a huge sense of relief.
I have more to say about it – about what changed in my life these past seven years: moving from single to married, age 22 to 29, and from Jordan to the US to Jordan to the US. And about the conflict itself, how it changed over time: right now, eleven years in, it’s frozen. A stalemate between Assad and everyone else.
But this week I was only feeling the guilt and relief.
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