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CaliforniaPeggy

(149,699 posts) Tue Nov 17, 2015, 02:13 AM Nov 2015

Gate A-4 By Naomi Shihab Nye, on a Blog by David Kanigan.

Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning my flight had been delayed four hours, I heard an announcement: “If anyone in the vicinity of Gate A-4 understands any Arabic, please come to the gate immediately.” Well— one pauses these days. Gate A-4 was my own gate. I went there.

The whole story at the link:

http://davidkanigan.com/2014/11/16/gate-a-4/