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[lsanderson]

Ringing In the Year 1390
By POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR
Published: March 19, 2011

MARCH 1981. My mother, all curves and decorum in her uptight Chanel suit, and my father, all stutter, glasses and advanced degrees, walked into an Alhambra, Calif., apartment: two bedrooms, one bathroom, furnished, $450 a month. It’s not nice — it’s not Paris of the last several months, no Tehran of the ’70s — but they took it. Everything is going to be different, but just for now, they kept telling themselves, this is temporary, all the change. More