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His aunt, noting his heap of golden ringlets and his overall celestial glow, calls him "a beam of light with hair."

His sister, being four years old and Irish-bred and therefore incapable of saying "th", calls him "Ma-tyy-us."

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Tish Durkin is a journalist whose work has appeared in publications including the New York Observer, the Atlantic Monthly, the National Journal, and Rolling Stone. After extensive postings in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, she is now based in Ireland.