User:Nhirsch123/sandbox

Shahin was born in Teheran in 1946 to a modern and respectable family. They were nominally Muslim, but I don’t think that religion played a big part in her upbringing. Her father was a successful businessman. I seem to recall that he owned a factory for machine-made rugs. I once saw huge Persian rugs bundled and folded up in her apartment in Washington D.C. These rugs came from her parents’ house in Teheran. She must have grown up in an enormous house back there since the rugs were extremely large. The parents escaped Iran after the fall of the Shah in 1979. They settled near the district to be close to their daughter. Underneath her modest dining table, she had a delicate silk Persian rug of the highest quality. She not only dressed beautifully, but she was also surrounded by beautiful things - rugs, pillows, scarves, people...