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    it has been eight months

    since Riverbend last posted; the post was long and hopeful, about she and her family’s arrived in Syria as refugees from Iraq.

    But since then, only silence.

    From the Washington Post last week:

    Damascus is the epicenter of the Middle East’s gravest humanitarian disaster since the Palestinian refugee crisis of 1948. …Unlike its neighbors, who have imposed strict visa requirements, Syria has done [...]