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- Give the child 50 lira.

- Don't be ridiculous.

So will the trouser stay there?

I've got no hair left. I went to

the barber. He just cut twice.

And how much?

I won't pay him 50.

As if he is selling a field to me.

- This damned...

When I paid 20 lira

for our house...

everyone said it was expensive.

That was in nineteen...

When I was in America a dollar

was less than one lira. - Ali, come!

- What is it?

- Come here I say.

A skinny barber used to

come to village...

in summer and in Winter.

He'd cut your hair for

a couple of tomatoes.

He always thanked people.

I never heard him

complain once.

Now the guy sits in his shop...

and you have to go to him.

Two clicks and he wants 50 lira.

Who can afford it?

He just turned up hems and

took in the waist a little.

How time has flown.

I can hardly believe it.

That's life.

We were much more

energetic earlier.

I was young and

strong then.

I was only 15. But the war was on,

so who cared about age.

I, who had never been beyond the

hills around the village...

found myself in Istanbul. They put us

on a train at Sirkeci Station.

It must be Haydarpasha Station.

- It was very crowdy.

Many guys who like me never had left

their villages were there.

A Kurdish boy

kept on following me.

I made friends with him.

What was his name?

He was a bit simple

but he had a good hearth.

- May God bless him if he's alive.

- Where is Nusaybin?

- What?

- In Iraq.

What happened then?

- We set out for Mosul.

There was poverty

in those parts.

We asked for food from the villagers

but they just said "maho".

"Maho" means "nothing".

We asked at other houses

but it was again "maho".

The cherries are over

early this year.

Not only the cherries,

you know. Blackberries, too.

I was passing under the

cherry tree yesterday..

and a sound came from above.

- Was it a squirrel.

I thought so too

but it was a snake.

- Snake? What kind of snake?

- A huge grey snake.

What it was doing up

in the tree I can't imagine.

Everything is

strange these days.

Even the walnuts

don't ripen on time.

- The cranes don't come any longer.

- Why?

- Don't know. The

pesticides probably.

What happened then, father?

That damned cough. I can't

get rid of it.

Where was I?

- You had got to Mesopotamia, Baghdad.

Yeah. We came to that plain...

and crossed that

long, desert-like plain...

and reached Kutulenmare...

near Baghdad.

We were there.

We suddenly encountered

the British.

We defeated them even though

we were hungry and thirsty.

And do you know what

happened next?

The English commander committed suicide.

- He couldn't bear the defeat.

But when their reinforcements

arrived, they beat us.

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