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The author reflects on the reason why he left Baghdad, Iraq and did not return again for 35 years. He mentions that he lived in a glass house in which former President Saddam Hussein did not exist. He describes his experience of returning to Baghdad the week after the fall of Hussein's regime. He relates that he tried to stay in Baghdad for four years, marry the childhood sweetheart he had left behind in 1968 and return to Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife to live there.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of living in Baghdad, Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.