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I could write a letter to Meg, which he’d<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">take home with him to Maun.
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Teej could then photograph the letter and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">text it to Meg.
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(She had Meg’s number on her phone: I’d given it to her<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">when she first went to collect Meg from the airport.
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)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Now I just had to write that letter.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">The first challenge was finding a pen among that bunch of muppets.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Does anyone have a pen?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">A what?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">A pen.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I’ve got an EpiPen!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">No!
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A pen.
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A biro!
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My kingdom for a biro!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Oh.
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A biro.
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Wow.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Somehow I found one.
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The next challenge was finding a place to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">compose.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I went off under a tree.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I thought.
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I stared into space.
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I wrote:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Hey Beautiful.
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OK you got me—cant stop thinking about you, missing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">you, LOTS.
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Phone went in river.
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Sad face...Apart from that, having an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">amazing time.
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Wish u were here.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Mike left, letter in hand.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Days later, wrapping up the boat part of the lads’ trip, we returned to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Maun.
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We met up with Teej, who immediately said: Relax, I’ve already<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">had a reply.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">So it hadn’t been a dream.
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Meg was real.
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All of it was real.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Among other things, Meg said in her reply that she was eager to speak<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">to me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Jubilant, I went off on the second part of the lads’ trip, into the Moremi<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">forest.
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This time I brought a sat phone.
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While everyone was finishing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">dinner I found a clearing and climbed the tallest tree, thinking the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">reception might be better.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I dialed for Granny when she married,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">and for Princess Margaret, but it was nearly exhausted now, I’d heard.
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By<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">the time I got married, if I ever got married, there might be none left.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I don’t recall leaving the Crypt.
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I don’t recall walking out to the altar.
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I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">have no memory of the readings, or removing the ring, or handing it to my<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">brother.
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The ceremony is mostly a blank in my mind.
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I recall Kate walking<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">down the aisle, looking incredible, and I recall Willy walking her back up<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">the aisle, and as they disappeared through the door, into the carriage that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">would convey them to Buckingham Palace, into the eternal partnership<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">they’d pledged, I recall thinking: Goodbye.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I loved my new sister-in-law, I felt she was more sister than in-law, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">sister I’d never had and always wanted, and I was pleased that she’d forever<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">be standing by Willy’s side.
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She was a good match for my older brother.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">They made each other visibly happy, and therefore I was happy too.
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But in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">my gut I couldn’t help feeling that this was yet another farewell under this<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">horrid roof.
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Another sundering.
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The brother I’d escorted into Westminster<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Abbey that morning was gone—forever.
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Who could deny it?
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He’d never<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">again be first and foremost Willy.
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We’d never again ride together across the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Lesotho countryside with capes blowing behind us.
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We’d never again share<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">a horsey-smelling cottage while learning to fly.
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Who shall separate us?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Life, that’s who.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I’d had the same feeling when Pa got married, the same presentiment,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">and hadn’t it come true?
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In the Camilla era, as I’d predicted, I saw him less<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">and less.
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Weddings were joyous occasions, sure, but they were also low-key<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">funerals, because after saying their vows people tended to disappear.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">It occurred to me then that identity is a hierarchy.
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We are primarily one<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">thing, and then we’re primarily another, and then another, and so on, until<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">death—in succession.
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Each new identity assumes the throne of Self, but<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">199<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">https://m.facebook.com/groups/182281287 1297698 https://t.
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:me/Afghansalarlibrary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">takes us further from our original self, perhaps our core self—the child.
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Yes,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">evolution, maturation, us to a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">place even more remote.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Out.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">We squinted at the terrain, the skies.
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Really?
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Here?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Colder, heavier rain started to come down.
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The instructors shouted that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">we should imagine our helicopter had just crash-landed behind enemy lines,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">and our only hope of survival was to go by foot from one end of the moor to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">the other, a distance of ten miles.
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We’d been given a meta narrative, which<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">we now recalled: We were a Christian army, fighting a militia sympathetic<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">to Muslims.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Our mission: Evade the enemy, escape the forbidding terrain.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Go.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">The truck roared away.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Wet, cold, we looked around, looked at each other.
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Well, this sucks.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">We had a map, a compass, and each man had a bivvy bag, essentially a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">body-length waterproof sock, to sleep in.
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No food was allowed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">206<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">https://m.facebook.com/groups/182281287 1297698 https://t.
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me/Afghansalarlibrary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Which way?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">This way?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">OK.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Bodmin was desolate, allegedly uninhabited, but here and there in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">distance we saw farmhouses.
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Lighted windows, smoke curling from brick<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">chimneys.
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How we longed to knock on a door.
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In the good old days people<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">would help out the soldiers on exercise, but now things were different.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Locals had been scolded many times by the Army; they knew not to open<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">their doors to strangers with bivvy bags.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">One of the two men on my team was my mate Phil.
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I liked Phil, but I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">started to feel something like unbounded love for the other man, because he<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">told us he’d visited Bodmin Moor as a summer walker and he knew where<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">we were.
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More, he knew how to get us out.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">He led, we followed like children, through the dark and into the next day.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">At dawn we found a wood of fir trees.
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The temperature approached<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">freezing, the rain fell even harder.
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We said to hell with our solitary bivvy<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">bags, and curled up together, spooned actually, like Mummy, whose last<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">sound on earth...would be a click.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">23.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Re A quiet night at Nott Cott, preparing dinner together.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">December 2016.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Meg and I had discovered that we shared the same favorite food: roast<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">chicken.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I didn’t know how to cook it, so that night she was teaching me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I remember the warmth of the kitchen, the wonderful smells.
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Lemon<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">wedges on the cutting board, garlic and rosemary, gravy bubbling in a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">saucepan.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I remember rubbing salt on the skin of the bird, then opening a bottle of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">wine.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Meg put on music.
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She was expanding my horizons, teaching me about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">folk music and soul, James Taylor and Nina Simone.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">It’s anew dawn.
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It’s a new day.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Maybe the wine went to my head.
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Maybe the weeks of battling the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">press had worn me down.
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For some reason, when the conversation took an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">unexpected turn, I became touchy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Then angry.
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Disproportionately, sloppily angry.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Meg said something I took the wrong way.
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It was partly a cultural<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">difference, partly a language barrier, but I was also just over-sensitive that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">night.
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I thought: Why’s she having a go at me?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I snapped at her, spoke to her harshly—cruelly.
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As the words left my<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">mouth, I could feel everything in the room come to a stop.
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The gravy<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">stopped bubbling, the molecules of air stopped orbiting.
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Even Nina<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">326<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">https://m.facebook.com/groups/182281287 1297698 https://t.
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:me/Afghansalarlibrary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Simone seemed to pause.
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Meg walked out of the room, disappearing for a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">full fifteen minutes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I went and found her upstairs.
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She was sitting in the bedroom.
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She was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">calm, but said in a quiet, level tone that she would never stand for being<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">spoken to like that.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I nodded.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">She wanted to know where it came from.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">18 316<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">19 318<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">20 320<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">21 323<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">22 324<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">23 326<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">24 307<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">25 329<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">26 330<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">27 332<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">28 334<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">29 336<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">30 338<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">31 340<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">32 340<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">33 341<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">34 346<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">35 347<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">36 349<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">37 350<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">38 351<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">39 352<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">40 353<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">41 354<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">42 356<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">43 357<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">44 359<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">45 360<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">46 362<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">47 363<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">449<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">https://m.facebook.com/groups/182281287 1297698 https://t.
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:me/Afghansalarlibrary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">82 421<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">83 423<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">84 424<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">85 425<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">86 426<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">87 431<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Epilogue 433<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Dedication 439<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Acknowledgments 440<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">451<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span and flames.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Well done, Dave said.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">We swooped back to camp, critiqued the video.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Perfect kill.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">We played some more PlayStation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Turned in early.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">olor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">li CAN BE HARD TO BE precise with Hellfires.
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Apaches fly with such<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">tremendous speed that it’s hard to take steady aim.
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Hard for some<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">anyway.
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I developed pinpoint accuracy, as if I was throwing darts in a pub.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">My targets were moving fast too.
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The speediest motorbike I shot was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">going about 50 k.p.h.
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The driver, a Taliban commander who'd been calling<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">in fire all day on our forces, was hunched over the handlebars, looking back<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">as we gave chase.
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He was purposely speeding between villages, using<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">civilians for cover.
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Old people, children, they were mere props to him.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Our windows of opportunity were those one-minute spans when he was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">between villages.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I remember Dave calling out: You’ve got two hundred meters till it’s a no-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">go.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Meaning, two hundred meters until this Taliban commander was hiding<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">behind another child.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I heard Dave again: You’ve got trees coming on the left, wall on the right.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Roger.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">229<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">https://m.facebook.com/groups/182281287 1297698 https://t.me/Afghansalarlibrary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Dave moved us into the five o’clock position, dropped to six hundred<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">feet.
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Now—<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I took the shot.
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The Hellfire smacked the motorbike, sent it flying into a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">small thatch of trees.
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Dave flew us over the trees, and through plumes of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">smoke we saw a ball of fire.
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And the bike.
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But no body.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I was ready to follow up with the 30-mm, strafe the area, but I couldn’t<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">see anything to strafe.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">We circled and circled.
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I was getting nervous.
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Did he get away, mate?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">There he is!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Fifty feet to the right of the motorbike: body on the ground.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Confirmed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I didn’t hug her.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I saw her into the Range Rover, then marched back to Pa and Willy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">34.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">|v A RING from Meg’s jewelry box and gave it to a designer, so he’d<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">know her size.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Since he was also the keeper of Mummy’s bracelets, earrings and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">necklaces, I asked him to harvest the diamonds from one particularly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">beautiful bracelet of Mummy’s and use those to create a ring.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I’d cleared all this in advance with Willy.
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I’d asked my brother if I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">could have the bracelet, and told him what it was for.
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I don’t recall him<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">hesitating, for one second, in giving it to me.
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He seemed to like Meg,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">despite his oft-cited concerns.
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Kate seemed to like her too.
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We’d had them<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">over for dinner during one of Meg’s visits, and Meg cooked, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">346<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">https://m.facebook.com/groups/182281287 1297698 https://t.
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:me/Afghansalarlibrary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">everything was good.
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Willy had a cold: he was sneezing and coughing, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Meg ran upstairs to get him some of her homeopathic cure-alls.
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Oregano<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">oil, turmeric.
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He seemed charmed, moved, though Kate announced to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">table that he’d never take such unconventional remedies.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">We talked about Wimbledon that night, and Suits, and Willy and Kate<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">weren’t brave enough to admit to being superfans.
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Which was sweet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">The only possibly discordant note I could think of was the marked<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">difference in how the two women dressed, which both of them seemed to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">notice.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Meg: ripped jeans, barefoot.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Kate: done up to the nines.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">No big deal, I thought.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Along with the diamonds from the bracelet I'd asked the designer to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">add a third—a blood-free diamond from Botswana.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">He asked if there was a rush.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Well...now that you mention it...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">30:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">M°* PACKED uP her house, gave up her role in Suits.
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After seven<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">seasons.
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A difficult moment for her, and cheeks were already healing, the todger wasn’t.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">It was becoming more of an issue by the day.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I don’t know why I should’ve been reluctant to discuss my penis with Pa,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">or all the gentlemen present.
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My penis was a matter of public record, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">indeed some public curiosity.
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The press had written about it extensively.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">There were countless stories in books, and papers (even The New York<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Times) about Willy and me not being circumcised.