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Colum McCann and the grief of two fathers for their slain daughters
For most of us, losing a child is the worst thing you could imagine.
Rami Elhunan’s 13-year-old daughter Smadar died when three Palestinian bombers blew themselves up in a Tel Aviv shopping street.
Bassam’s daughter Abir was 10, buying a bracelet of sticky sweets when, a decade after Smadar’s death, an Israeli soldier in a passing tank fired the bullet that crushed the back of her skull.
- Stephanie Bunbury
- WA Today
The two fathers were already friends, both members of…