The Car My Father Drove

Fiza Pirani
3 min readAug 27, 2019

I don’t remember the exact day he bought it, but I remember how hard it was to let go.

My dad’s silver Dodge Caravan was like a fifth family member. One of the most iconic objects of my childhood.

We packed our lives into that van twice: once when we moved from Houston to New York and again when we moved from New York to Atlanta.

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Fiza Pirani

Atlanta-based writer/editor and bibliophile. Founder of immigrant and refugee mental health newsletter, Foreign Bodies. Join: foreignbodies.net 💌