![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike skype, whose messaging interface is not user-friendly, and WhatsApp who has no calling, Viber is ideal because it allows for easy messaging and calling. Viber is the leading messaging in app in Iran, and the leading messaging app for communication between Iranians in and out of Iran. They exchange numbers, and meet up in Canada.Īnd then two weeks ago my aunt downloads Viber onto my mother’s phone. Until 2012, when my mom gets a Facebook request from one of them. These women and their spouses were a regular fixture of my parents’ lives until mom and dad abruptly left.įast forward through the eighties, the nineties, and Bush 2000's (among other major life moments), all of which comprise a period of zero communication between this group of friends and my mother. In the late seventies, this group experienced the requisite tour of weddings as each one got hitched, and there are pictures in our old photo albums of these stylish events (not unlike all those photos that self conscious diaspora point to when we want to make the point they don’t come from a place of “savages”). Given the revolution, the US-Iran divorce, then the Iran-Iraq war, and the general state of telecommunications - she remembers using rolls of coins to call Iran from a pay phone - it essentially meant she and my father were cut off from their previous life.Īt the age of twenty-five, when she left, she had a pretty solid crew of four girlfriends, and they specialized in silly sarcasm and poking fun. Thirty-five years ago my mom and dad got on a plane to leave Iran. My mother’s return to her first friendships after thirty-five years ![]()
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