I searched to discover which was the first of all languages. Many have said that the Aramaic is most ancient, and that it is in the nature of man to speak it without having been taught by anyone. Further, that if a newborn child were placed in the desert with no one but a mute wet nurse, he would speak Aramaic. -- Abraham Ibn-Ezra, twelfth-century commentator and linguist

I am the keeper of my family's stories.

"One day," I said, pulling him closer. "One day we'll go together, okay?"