'In my wildest dreams, I did not think I would be meeting him the next day,' Mevan Babbakar told Newsweek.
When 29-year-old Mevan Babbakar decided to embark on a journey to retrace the many miles she and her Kurdish family had traveled in search of safety after fleeing Iraq more than two decades ago, she hoped to find a familiar face.
Then, when Babbakar and her mother left the camp, she said that the man had come to visit them, bringing along two bikes as gifts—"one for my mother and one for me.""Firstly, which child doesn't want a really big gift?" she joked. But, more importantly, Babbakar said, as a child who grew up with few possessions to her name, the kind man's gesture also gave her another gift beyond monetary value: A sense of"self-worth.
"Beyond the bike, what was more important is that it became the foundation of my self-worth," she said."What I mean was that I didn't ever feel like I deserved a big gift like that... and when someone who isn't your mother and father comes and says you deserve this big thing, it makes you think about yourself differently."
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