I have kept this picture because it was taken at the celebration for my aunt’s wedding in the winter on 1956 in Baghdad. I used to be very close to my aunt; it was as if she was actually my mother. I was upset by her getting married because I thought it would take her away from me – and I look it in the photo.

As for the booklet of appeals, my other aunt who was a hajjiya (had made the pilgrimage to Mecca) gave it to me in 1978.