Tamarind Syrup

When I was a little child, during the long hot summer afternoons, my mother used to call on friends of hers, originally Jerusalemites who had moved to Bethlehem after the Nakba, the displacement following the 1948 war. Tradition requires that we address close friends of one’s parents as aunt and uncle, the same as with family. Tante Yvonne and Tante Virginie