Aseel Kami has worked as a reporter for Reuters in Baghdad since 2005. In the following story, slugged WITNESS-IRAQ/BAGHDAD and headlined "WITNESS - After the bomb, retail therapy in Baghdad" she describes what it has been like "waking from a nightmare" as violence ebbs in Baghdad and shops and restaurants reopen. She relates how shoppers and shopkeepers shrug off the worst bombing in months, and contemplates whether it may now be safe enough to raise her seven-year-old son in the city.

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