As a little girl I often heard the story of how my grandmother escaped the Turks by dressing like a boy in order to leave the old country, ...

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Yes hay em . That means, I am Armenian. My grandparents arrived here from Armenia to escape the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey. I'm ...