Dolfin Kheyo Number 6037 North Kedvale Avenue, Sauganash Park Chicago.
Dolfin and I met the very first Christmas of the year 1997 ,when I purchased my home next door. Dolfin had just nursed her mother and lost her to cancer four months prior to our moving in.
My mother was already sick as well with cancer, and one fine day a wonderful person and neighbor asked me in her home for chai-tea. I said how lovely, this lady to make a very long story short, has been a mother figure, my son's grandmother, and my Godmother. If it weren't for her personal, loving support, I would have never known besides my own husband, what true compassion for each other means.
I start by telling her story, Dolfin's at 6037 N Kedvale. Dolfin first came to America from Iraq, as a refugee over 30 years ago, an American citizen, a pillar of the Assyrian community and highly respected. She is an elderly American Assyrian woman, whom was so proud to finally after working more than three jobs, for many years, bought her dream home on Kedvale ave. Since April of 2002,her life has been literally turned upside-down. the uncertainty and constant health problems, worry, the complete disappointment of her community and government . For over five and a half years with illness, and constant worry, Dolfin as a seventy one year old woman, deserves some peace, and dignity in her later years. Instead of the daily drama that surrounds our conversations. Its always there, a little cry, a hug to her grandson Charlie, a daily question over tea, just believe that we will one day soon have justice. That we may at last see the light at the end of the tunnel. Dolfin has lived like us and our other neighbors, a prisoner of the state's inadequate inaction to finally resolve this terrible issue with dignity and respect. To afford us what exactly our rights are (if any) we are to expect as taxpayers, constituents', and private citizens,
End this fiasco, she seeks to move on and open a new chapter without all the uncertainties and heartache this has caused in her life, before its too late. She deserves That.
