Word: forebearers
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...World. He might return to the ancestral village years later and try to remember his childhood. But now immigrants can go time-traveling in their own histories, back and forth. One family, the Dalias, have been commuting thus between their pasts and their futures since 1926, when a forebear, Abdul-Hameed Dalia, began shuttling between the Middle East and the New World. The resulting state of mind may be painfully torn, but is often miraculously freed and creative. A sense of being treacherous to the tribe and its values coincides with a heady liberation...