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I was at my hairdresser last week, I've been seeing him for what must be over 30 years by now. He told me his wife passed away last month, it was a bit of a shock. She had been ill the past year from a lung ailment. He took her to the hospital on a Saturday and she died the following Tuesday. Fortunately she did not suffer. I think they are in their mid-sixties. He told me to take a couple of his Chatelaine magazines home, they were new issues and that his wife always told him to give them to me because I like that magazine. I was touched and made sure to take them home this time. When I got home I ordered a fruit basket to be delivered to his store as a token of my sympathy. He called me as soon as the basket arrived to tell me it was much appreciated.
His Syrian assistant had been working that day. She is a pretty young woman who left Syria with her young family about a year ago under a refugee intake program. She was able to move in with her sister. She told me she had 2 children when I asked, ages 6 and 9. They love it in school and they have learned English very quickly. In fact, she is worried they will forget their mother tongue. Her mother in Syria is also concerned because soon they won't be able to communicate with her. They just want to speak English now.
