My parents were both born in England.

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We didn't want to spend money shipping furniture, or things we could replace here. So we sent just the minimum, only things like books that couldn't easily be replaced.

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It still took over 2 years. We knew we'd need to return to England a couple of times a year to see my mother, but when we budgeted in the cost of that travel, we couldn't make it work.

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We just took a taxi to the Desert Inn in Beersheba. Even that was like coming home - we'd stayed there many times before.

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