The idea of our peace babies eventually became our present: Sami was born in Germany in 2014, whereas his sister was born in the United States in 2019. My 9-year-old son, Sami, is a custodian of the natural world - and he's determined to heal what is broken. The whole world felt so open then, a place of possibility and hope that our generation could usher in a better world. We joked about our future “peace babies,” who would be born to a Jewish mother (me) and a Muslim father (him). We sipped iced coffee as we discussed the potential of coupling off, even marrying one another. I met my Turkish-from-Germany husband almost two decades ago in Brooklyn, during a sticky-sweet summer between adolescence and adulthood. This is my favorite story of Sami, now 9, who describes himself as “American-Turkish-German-Jewish-Muslim.”
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