"I love cats too but I don't have a cat sleep with me," writes 13-year-old Iraqi blogger Raghda of Baghdad Girl, who is carrying the catblogging torch in the land between the rivers. We were touched by her personal response to a comment we left on her blog re our own catblogging:
Thanks Sissy Willis: But this cat is not mine, I find this picture on the internet, I have a cat but I keep it outside my house. You have nice cats. I hope you'll visit my blog again.
Beyond catblogging Raghda suggests an Anne-Frank-like dimension of life in Baghdad for a young teenager today:
Before two years, when there was peace and security, the life was nice, I was waiting for the summer holiday to play and go out to the public garden with mom and dad and my family and have fun but now there is no peace and security, so we rarely go out, now I just sit and work on the computer and work on my blog.
Poignant and yet, similar to Anne Frank with her diary, Raghda's present is enriched by her blogging, and unlike Anne Frank's horrible fate, Raghda's future holds the promise of freedom and a young life fulfilled when this War on Terror finally turns the corner.
[via Zayed at Healing Iraq]
Update: Next day, something funny here. The post with the comment we wrote and her reply are "Not found." Hmmm.
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