"I’m Zeina."

The big day has come. I had mixed feeling of happiness and sadness. Should I be happy for the future ahead waiting for me? Or cry for the past that killed a big part of me inside?
I was a five year old when my father died. Imam Sadr Foundation became my home since then. My sister and I were raised at the foundation. I was very ambitious. I wanted to get to learn everything. I succeeded in my schooling with high degrees. When I finished school, one of my relatives came and asked to marry me.

The concerned team in the foundation started preparing everything needed for my wedding. They got me furniture for my new house and all my needs as a bride. I was the first girl to have a wedding at the foundation. A couple of days before the wedding, the invitation cards where delivered for relatives and cousins. On the big day, all came to see Ghadir bride. They called me so because my wedding was on the day of Eid al Ghadir. The smell of flowers from here and there filled the place. My friends or shall I say my sisters, the sisters who the hard circumstances brought them together to live together share their feelings in the arms of Imam Sadr Foundation. All were cheering for me when suddenly a woman in her forties crosses the crowd in the middle and stood in front of me. Silence filled the place. Who could this woman be?

The woman was crying. Then she fainted. All rushed to help her get up. She opened her eyes and said to me:”My daughter Zeina did you recognize me? Of course you won’t. You won’t know the mom who cried for you days and nights and never stopped thinking about you. I used to see you as an angel in the sky. Imagine how you became now. Who wondered I would see you in the white dress. Thank God.” My mom had been forcibly taken away from her kids once our father died due to some family problems. All who has been there cried. They cried for the situation, cried from happiness and my mom and I cried as well. She was a very dear guest; a guest who added life to my wedding. What a legend that changed everything in one second. Our hearts were flattered with love and joy after years of separation and sadness. I later on knew that the foundation had prepared all that to make me meet my mother who I haven’t seen since I was a baby. They searched a lot and found my mom’s address and invited her to attend my wedding. They offered all ways to help just to make sure she’d come. Every girl wishes that her mom stands next to her on her wedding day. My happiness would have never been completed without my mom’s presence. From all my heart I say, thank you Imam Sadr foundation.