Photo by Tracey Eaton
Cheryl Diaz Meyer photographs mujahedeen fighters on the front lines of Taloqan in northern Afghanistan.
Upon arrival in Dallas, my fiancé, Kenny, told me he’d left some messages for me on the answering machine. A small, broken and barely recognizable voice crackled out, “K-e-h-e-nny, w-would you c-call meeee?” I breathed a sigh of relief. My mother’s claim that she would be dead by the time I returned from Afghanistan did not come true. She’s OK.
I’m OK.
We’re all OK.