This is a CBC podcast.

I dare not even say this out loud at this point.

It feels too incredible. If she is who right now we suspect she is and this is

hard to describe it. It's early morning. Joanna and I are at breakfast, but we're not eating.

We've barely touched the bread and honey on our table.

We're too distracted, trying to make sense of a rumor we heard last night.

We did not see this coming. We were not looking for this person and yet she has landed right in front of us.

She is DA.

DA, the Canadian woman who we had met in Alrod.

We knew ahead of time that she knew

baby Selman's Canadian mother

and she was willing to give us information about it.

When you come to a place like Syria, you have no idea who will speak with you,

until you get here.

And in our hunt for Salman, we basically had no one. And then we had DA.

A woman we'd never heard of who knew Aisha, was friends with her and was keen to talk.

She's in terms of a character she's as petite young woman,

very energetic, this sort of pixi-esque energy,

she's flitting from one place to the other, her words just rush out.

She was incredibly, incredibly helpful.

She talked about Aisha baby Selmon's a mom in terms of characterization, lovely person,

the sort of things that you would say about a friend who had passed away.

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