“Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets.
- They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.”

—  Firoozeh Dumas

Source: Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad

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