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Naoemi Gullickson was late getting home last Thursday, and her daughter Amanda, 3, gazed anxiously out the front window of their Staten Island apartment. A newly nervous child, she turned to the cousin taking care of her and asked, "Is Mommy in heaven now too?" The question was brutally reasonable. Amanda's father, New York City fire department Lieutenant Joseph Gullickson, was killed on Sept. 11 at the World Trade Center. Then last week her grandfather Jose A. Perez died aboard American Airlines Flight 587. The little girl can't help fretting: Who in her family will be next...
Neither man could stand to see a person suffer, and Jose took the loss of his son-in-law--and its effect on his daughter--badly. After the emotional drain of Jo's memorial service, Jose wanted to spend a week in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo. His wife Mamerta decided she would stay in New York in case their daughter needed her, in case Jo's body was finally recovered. "It's devastating my husband hasn't been found yet," Naoemi says. "And now it could be the same thing with my father. Is this a bad dream...
...Like the others, Saida, 27, received no formal education, although her three daughters are enrolled in elementary school. Saida says her eldest daughter Nahid, 12, is getting ready for her betrothal to a 26-year-old farmer and does not have much time to spare for morning instruction. Besides, says Saida, Nahid tells her she learns at school that the Koran teaches her how to be a good wife and mother, instruction that exasperates Saida. "How can the Koran teach you how to live your life, how to take care of your children and your husband?" she asks. So Saida...
...husband says the Koran tells him he can control his wife however he wants," says Banaz, 32, a mother of seven. ("Five boys," she says, jubilantly. "Only two daughters.") "But I have read the Koran, and nowhere does it say this. He is lying to me." Still, Banaz can do nothing. If she disobeys her husband, he will beat her, as he has done many times before. Once, she claims, he hit her chest so hard that she could not breast-feed her daughter for a week...
...those who stayed home, determined mothers have found ways to get schooling for their daughters. Rawshan and Nasima, both 30, are married to the same man, Abdul Qadir, 55, a porter in a Kabul market who makes about $1 a day. Rawshan has one son and three daughters by Abdul. Nasima has one son and two daughters. Desperately poor, they live in a house peppered with bullet holes. For the past two years, Rawshan's eldest daughter Wahida, 10, has been going to a secret school in an abandoned building. She has only one hour of lessons a day, given...