When we finally arrived the chauffeur escorted my sister, Laila, and me up to my father's suite. As usual he was hiding behind the door waiting to scare us. We exchanged... many hugs and kisses as we could possibly give in one day. My father took a good look at us, then he sat me down on his lap and said something that I will never forget.
He looked at me straight in my eyes and said, Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean. Covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine covered with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get them
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He then looked at me with serious eye, Your body is sacred, your far more precious than diamonds and pearls and you should be covered too
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Her father was the boxing legend, Muhammad Ali
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