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They grew up amid olive groves in southern Lebanon. The son of one married the other's daughter. Now they're living temporarily in a vacant building in central Beirut, displaced many times.

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Born in south Lebanon, displaced to Beirut, two grandmothers reflect on Israeli invasions

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