I pour wine upon the stone, the emblem of joy and cheerfulness.

And may we rejoice at the revelation of truth and may virtue flourish as the vine.

I sprinkle oil upon this stone the emblem of peace and unanimity.

And may the peace which pass it all understanding descend from heaven and abide with us forever.

Cool. All right. Well, I guess I wanted to start. So we're not using your real name for the story.

Since we're not using your real name, do you have a preference for what we'll call you or refer to you?

We'll probably make up a name for you in the story. But if you have a preference for what you want that to be, tell me.

A good pseudonym would be probably, I don't want it to sound too very made up in the same time.

I wanted something, also wanted to be a bit of special.

So let's try to call it Solomon.

Solomon. Okay, cool. I like that.

This is producer Alex A-Tac speaking with Solomon. Solomon is not his cool. I like that. This is producer Alex A-Tak speaking with Solomon.

Solomon is not his real name. We're keeping him anonymous.

And it'll be obvious why later on.

I was born and raised in Baghdad in Iraq. I was born in the late 80s and I stayed in Iraq all the way till 2006.

During that time, during the first 10 years of my life, I was living in my family house.

And that was during the times of the previous regime during the Saddam Hussein's government.

In the summer vacation between June and September, there wasn't very much to do.

The television stations wouldn't start broadcasting until the afternoon,

and it was so hot in those summer months that if you wanted to go outside and ride bikes

or play football with your friends, you'd have to wait until the evening.

So during the day, Solomon needed to entertain himself.

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