Capital Voices: 'It was a really bad war between my heart and my brain'

In anticipation of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman has been out in search of Ottawans — 150 of them — to learn their stories of life and death, hope and love, the extraordinary and the everyday. We’ll share one person’s story every day until Canada Day.
“I’m from Tehran, and before I came to Canada, I had a really good relationship. I really loved my boyfriend. But I’d been working on a plan to come to Can