“She was the most precious thing I had in my life, the day she was born until the day she passed,” said Mansoor Naseem, father of homicide victim Zainab Mansoor.
Incoming surf near high tide paints the surf zone at Seabright State Beach as anglers share the terrain with dog walkers and beach combers near the Santa Cruz Harbor Jetty in January. Santa Cruz County residents have had an unusually high number of summer-like beach days this winter, as the region and state endure a dry start to the rain season.
While Mansoor was born in the Bay Area, she and her family spent the majority of her life living in New York City, only moving back to California during her junior year of high school. “She was the most precious thing I had in my life, the day she was born until the day she passed,” said Naseem, a Bay Area software developer. “I’m the one who gave her the name Zainab and her last name is Mansoor, which is my first name. It’s a custom, it basically means, ‘Zainab, the daughter of Mansoor.
Naseem said he never asked his daughter what her favorite color was, or if he could have her autograph. He did not know how much to water her many small plants, or what the story behind a rock left in her room was. So many conversations, he said, had been left unfinished and so many family vacations left undone.
“I lost my right hand,” Naseem said, adding that in his Indian Muslim culture, sons are often groomed as family’s top achievers. “She was not my son, she was my daughter… In the future, I only dreamt that my daughter was going to be the CEO. She was going to run everything.”Dear Abby: I was holding her phone, and I saw a text I wasn't meant to seeMiss Manners: I realized only later that they were talking about meHarriette Cole: I want these surprise roommates gone.
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