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    dominance

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    l a pleasant

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    ays, and p

    thing about

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    reams at ni

    f the com

    ing the day.

    routine cont

    three day

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    daily curfew

    he streets or

    h day, man

    rently, the p

    any troubl

    e. That aftern

    around with

    houses. Thi

    alk; it was a

    ywhere, a r

    rhaps a del

    the atmosph

    curred in a thi

    othing was

    he choreogra

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    ad seen. Som

    ey found app

    cial

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    people he

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    omen looking

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    necessary w

    re moment

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    ck and tangi

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    military arriv

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    days still pl

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    ung mind. I

    in Israel

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    unending c

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    amputated

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    eet people:

    OSE DAYS

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    TOWN

    guns in the

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    s ended. Th

    as indeed d

    n especially t

    during the fients, which

    sumed to hea

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    teries and fic

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    orrows it wr

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    my nightm

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    their victims

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    men, women

    air and tear

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    dust gradu

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    he Muslims

    ght. In additiepresented a

    the account

    and legends

    ions. As one

    r in school.

    aving in its

    ought. The

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    of countries

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    untry where

    ; another e

    neutral gro

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    of a gun

    est of my

    lly settled

    ee friends

    who were

    n, schoolll sides of

    of others

    oncerning

    could tell,

    trail the

    mbers of

    nal town.

    , and the

    y family,

    ppened to

    is like for

    of Iraq,

    frica like

    ber ever

    how the

    those

    about a

    life. Howine life or

    to a

    of the

    s of such

    society is

    that loved

    re in the

    and cities

    children

    pressed less. This

    the rebels

    ample of

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    have been

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