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<p class="ng-scope">As part of a collaboration between Syria Deeply and Rookie Mag, we’re publishing the memoirs of a teenage girl living in the midst of Syria’s war.</p>

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<p class="ng-scope"><em>Marah, as she’s chosen to be known, lives in a city under siege. She was 15 years old when the uprising began. This is the first in her series of articles.</em></p>
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via <a href="http://www.syriadeeply.org/articles/2014/04/5143/syrian-diary-part-1/">My Syrian Diary: Part 1 | Syria Deeply, Covering the Crisis</a>.