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Mommy-festing.

Woke up with tears running from my eyes, and a longing feeling gnawing in my chest. I remembered begging to my conscious-side of mind, "If this is a dream, don't wake me up. Please, please let me stay here. I cannot give up on this life. I cannot give up on us!"  Disappointment. That's what blanketed me when I opened my eyes. Whisking the tears away, I immediately Googled the only word I remembered from the life-like, vivid dream I had-- mingora. What is that? Have I heard that before?  Mingora: Mingora is a city in the Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.  Maybe Emaan have mentioned it before. She is my only Pakistani friend I have, so it could be from her.  "Hey, Emaan. Have you ever mentioned the word Mingora to/around me before?" I texted her after sleep has left me.  "What's Mingora?" she replied. Huh.  "It says here on Google, it's a city in Pakistan."  "Oh, right! I just remembered, I have very distant relati...