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99 | spare.txt | 776 | Maybe he took all those long sniffs<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">because it was hard to smell anything over his personal scent. |
99 | spare.txt | 777 | Eau Sauvage.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">He’d slather the stuff on his cheeks, his neck, his shirt. |
99 | spare.txt | 778 | Flowery, with a hint<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">of something harsh, like pepper or gunpowder, it was made in Paris. |
99 | spare.txt | 779 | Said so<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">on the bottle. |
99 | spare.txt | 780 | Which made me think of Mummy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Yes, Harry, Mummy’ in Paris.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Their divorce had become final exactly one year before. |
99 | spare.txt | 781 | Almost to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">day.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Be good, boys.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">We will, Pa.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Dont stay up too late.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">He left. |
99 | spare.txt | 782 | His scent remained.<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">20<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. |
99 | spare.txt | 783 | :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">Willy and I finished dinner, watched some more TV, then got up to our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">typical pre-bedtime hiinks. |
99 | spare.txt | 784 | We perched on the top step of a side staircase<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">and eavesdropped on the adults, hoping to hear a naughty word or story. |
99 | spare.txt | 785 | We<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">ran up and down the long corridors, under the watchful eyes of dozens of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">dead stag heads. |
99 | spare.txt | 786 | At some point we bumped into Granny’s piper. |
99 | spare.txt | 787 | Rumpled,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">pear-shaped, with wild eyebrows and a tweed kilt, he went wherever Granny<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">went, because she loved the sound of pipes, as had Victoria, though Albert<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">supposedly called them a “beastly instrument.” While summering at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Balmoral, Granny asked that the piper play her awake and play her to dinner.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">His instrument looked like a drunken octopus, except that its floppy arms<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">were etched <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">https://m.facebook.com/groups/182281287 1297698 https://t. |
99 | spare.txt | 788 | 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">He brought out his wireless and we began sampling music, wonderful<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">music, all kinds of music. |
99 | spare.txt | 789 | He wholly endorsed our desire to have an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">orchestra rather than an organist, and he played an assortment of orchestras<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">to get us in the mood.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">After a time, we segued into classical, and he talked about his love of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Beethoven.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Meg spoke about her own deep feeling for Chopin.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">She’d always loved Chopin, she said, but in Canada she grew<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">dependent on him, because Chopin was the only thing that could soothe<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Guy and Bogart.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">She played them Chopin day and night.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Pa smiled sympathetically.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">As one piece ended, he’d quickly reload his wireless, begin humming or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">tapping his foot to the next. |
99 | spare.txt | 790 | He was airy, witty, charming, and I kept<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">shaking my head in amazement. |
99 | spare.txt | 791 | I knew Pa loved music, but I never knew<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">he loved it this much.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Meg evoked so much in him, qualities I’d rarely seen. |
99 | spare.txt | 792 | In her presence<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Pa became boyish. |
99 | spare.txt | 793 | I saw it, saw the bond between them growing stronger,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">and I felt strengthened in my own bond with him. |
99 | spare.txt | 794 | So many people were<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">treating her shabbily, it filled my heart to see my father treating her like the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">princess she was about to—maybe born to—become.<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">41.<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">A, FTER ALL THE STRESS OF ASKING Granny for permission to marry Meg, I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">thought I’d never have the courage to ask her for anything else.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">And yet I now dared to make another ask: Granny, please, may I, for my<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">wedding, keep my beard?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Not a small ask either. |
99 | spare.txt | 795 | A beard was thought by some to be a clear<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">violation of protocol and long-standing norms, especially since I was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">getting married in my Army uniform. |
99 | spare.txt | 796 | Beards were forbidden in the British<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Army.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">But I was no longer in the Army and I desperately wanted to hang on to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">something that had become an effective check on my anxiety.<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> felt to be unseen.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">We talked at length about the glory, the luxury, of privacy, of spending an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">hour or two away from the press’s prying eyes. |
99 | spare.txt | 797 | Our one true haven, we said,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">where those lot can never ever find us.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">And then they found us.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">At the tail end of 2001 Marko visited me at Eton. |
99 | spare.txt | 798 | We met for lunch at a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">café in the heart of town, which I thought quite a treat. |
99 | spare.txt | 799 | Plus an excuse to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">bunk off, leave school grounds? |
99 | spare.txt | 800 | I was all smiles.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">But no. |
99 | spare.txt | 801 | Marko, looking grim, said this was no larky outing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">What's up, Marko?<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 been asked to find out the truth, Harry.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">About what?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I suspected he was referring to my recent loss of virginity. |
99 | spare.txt | 802 | Inglorious<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">episode, with an older woman. |
99 | spare.txt | 803 | She liked horses, quite a lot, and treated me<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">76<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. |
99 | spare.txt | 804 | :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">not unlike a young stallion. |
99 | spare.txt | 805 | Quick ride, after which she’d smacked my rump<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">and sent me off to graze. |
99 | spare.txt | 806 | Among the many things about it that were wrong:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">It happened in a grassy field behind a busy pub.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Obviously someone had seen us.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">The truth, Marko?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">About whether or not you’re doing drugs, Harry.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">What?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">It seemed that the editor of Britain’s biggest tabloid had recently phoned<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">my father’s office to say she’d uncovered “evidence” of my doing drugs in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">various locations, including Club H. Also, a bike shed behind a pub. |
99 | spare.txt | 807 | (Not the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">pub where I’d lost my virginity.) |
99 | spare.txt | 808 | My father’s office immediately dispatched<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Marko to take a clandestine meeting with one of this editor’s lieutenants, in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">some shady hotel room, and the lieutenant laid out the tabloid’s case. |
99 | spare.txt | 809 | Now<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Marko laid it out for me.<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 again if it was true.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Lies, I said. |
99 | spare.txt | 810 | All lies.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">He went item by item through the editor’s evidence. |
99 | spare.txt | 811 | I disputed all of it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Wrong, wrong, wrong. |
99 | spare.txt | 812 | The basic facts, the details, it was all <p class="p2"><span class="s1">It looked heavy. |
99 | spare.txt | 813 | It also looked magical. |
99 | spare.txt | 814 | The more we stared, the brighter<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">it got—was that possible? |
99 | spare.txt | 815 | And the glow was seemingly internal. |
99 | spare.txt | 816 | The jewels<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">did their part, but the crown seemed to possess some inner energy source,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">something beyond the sum of its parts, its jeweled band, its golden fleurs-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">de-lis, its crisscrossing arches and gleaming cross. |
99 | spare.txt | 817 | And of course its ermine<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">base. |
99 | spare.txt | 818 | You couldn’t help but feel that a ghost, encountered late at night inside<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">the Tower, might have a similar glow. |
99 | spare.txt | 819 | I moved my eyes slowly,<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">261<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. |
99 | spare.txt | 820 | :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">appreciatively, from the bottom to the top. |
99 | spare.txt | 821 | The crown was a wonder, a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">transcendent and evocative piece of art, not unlike the poppies, but all I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">could think in that moment was how tragic that it should remain locked up<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">in this Tower.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Yet another prisoner.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Seems a waste, I said to Willy and Kate, to which, I recall, they said<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">nothing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Maybe they were looking at that band of ermine, remembering my<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">wedding remarks.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Maybe not.<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">76.<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">A WEEKS LATER, after more than a year of talking and planning,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">thinking and worrying, seven thousand fans packed into the Queen<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Elizabeth Olympic Park for the opening ceremony. |
99 | spare.txt | 822 | The Invictus Games<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">were born.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">It had been decided that the International Warrior Games was a tongue<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">twister, a mouthful. |
99 | spare.txt | 823 | A clever Royal Marine had then come up with this far<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">better alternative.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">As soon as he suggested it we all said: Of course! |
99 | spare.txt | 824 | After the William<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Ernest Henley poem!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Every Brit knew that poem. |
99 | spare.txt | 825 | Many had the first line by heart.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Out of the night that covers me...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">And what schoolboy or schoolgirl didn’t encounter at least once those<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">sonorous final lines?<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">I am the master of my fate,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Iam the captain of my soul.<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">Minutes before my speech at stuff. |
99 | spare.txt | 826 | For several weeks they poked my body,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">probed my mind.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Drug-free, they concluded. |
99 | spare.txt | 827 | They seemed surprised.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Also, videos to the contrary notwithstanding, not a total thicko.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">So...proceed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">My first aircraft would be a Firefly, they said. |
99 | spare.txt | 828 | Bright yellow, fixed wing,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">single prop.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Simple machine, according to my first flight instructor, Sergeant Major<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Booley.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I got in and thought: Really? |
99 | spare.txt | 829 | Didn’t look simple 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">I turned to Booley, studied him. |
99 | spare.txt | 830 | He wasn’t simple either. |
99 | spare.txt | 831 | Short, solid,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">tough, he’d fought in Iraq and the Balkans and should’ve been a hard case,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">given all he’d seen and been through, but in fact he seemed to suffer no ill-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">effects from his tours of combat. |
99 | spare.txt | 832 | On the contrary, he was all gentleness.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">He needed to be. |
99 | spare.txt | 833 | With so much on my mind, I entered our sessions wildly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">distracted, and it showed. |
99 | spare.txt | 834 | I kept expecting Booley to lose patience, to begin<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">shouting at me, but he never did. |
99 | spare.txt | 835 | In fact, after one session, he invited me for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">a motorbike ride in the country. |
99 | spare.txt | 836 | Lets go and clear our heads, Lieutenant<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Wales.<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">174<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. |
99 | spare.txt | 837 | :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">It worked. |
99 | spare.txt | 838 | Like a charm. |
99 | spare.txt | 839 | And the motorbike, a gorgeous Triumph 675,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">was a timely reminder of what I was after in these flight lessons. |
99 | spare.txt | 840 | Speed and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">power.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">And freedom.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Then we discovered we weren’t free: the press had followed us the whole<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">way and papped us outside Booley’s house.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">After a period of acclimatizing to the Firefly’s cockpit, becoming familiar<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">with the control panel, we finally took her up. |
99 | spare.txt | 841 | On one of our first flights<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">together, with no warning, Booley threw the aircraft into a stall. |
99 | spare.txt | 842 | I felt the left<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">wing dip, a sickening feeling of disorder, of entropy, and then, after several<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">seconds that felt like decades, he recovered the aircraft and leveled the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">wings.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I stared at him. |
99 | spare.txt | 843 | What in the absolute—?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Was this an aborted suicide attempt?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p little creature bestirred itself, and did just that.<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">438<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">For MEG AND ARCHIE AND LILI...AND, OF COURSE, MY MOTHER<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">439<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. |
99 | spare.txt | 844 | :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">Acknowledgments<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">The length of this list alone leaves me deeply humbled.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">On the publishing side, thank you to everyone at Penguin Random House,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">U.S. |
99 | spare.txt | 845 | and U.K., beginning of course with the sage and forbearing Gina<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Centrello, plus super-genius-editor (and all-around top bloke) Ben<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Greenberg. |
99 | spare.txt | 846 | Thanks to Markus Dohle and Madeline McIntosh for the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">understanding as timelines changed, not once, but twice. |
99 | spare.txt | 847 | Thanks to Bill<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Scott-Kerr, Tom Weldon, Andy Ward, David Drake, Madison Jacobs, Larry<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Finlay, Theresa Zoro, Bill Takes, Lisa Feuer, Katrina Whone, Benjamin<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Dreyer, Sally Franklin, Catriona Hillerton, Linnea Knollmueller, Mark<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Birkey, Kelly Chian, Derek Bracken, Kate Samano, Simon Sullivan, Chris<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Brand, Jenny Pouech, Susan Corcoran, Maria Braeckel, Leigh Marchant,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Windy Dorresteyn, Leslie Prives, Aparna Rishi, Ty Nowicki, Matthew<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Martin, Anke Steinecke, Sinead Martin, Vanessa Milton, Martin Soames,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Kaeli Subberwal, Denise Cronin, Sarah Lehman, Jaci Updike, Cynthia<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Lasky, Allyson Pearl, Skip Dye, Stephen Shodin, Sue Malone-Barber, Sue<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Driskill, Michael DeFazio, Annette Danek, Valerie VanDelft, Stacey<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Witcraft, Nihar Malaviya, Kirk Bleemer, Matthew Schwartz, Lisa Gonzalez,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Susan Seeman, Eric Tessen, Gina Wachtel, Daniel Christensen, Jess Wells,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Thea James, Holly Smith, Patsy Irwin, Nicola Bevin, Robert Waddington,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Thomas Chicken, Chris Turner, Stuart Anderson, Ian Sheppard, Vicky<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Palmer, and Laura Ricchetti.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">On the audio side, thanks goes to Kelly Gildea, Dan Zitt, Scott Sherratt,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Noah Bruskin, Alan Parsons, Ok Hee Kolwitz, Tim Bader, Amanda<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">D’Acierno, Lance Fitzgerald, Donna Passannante, Katie Punia, Ellen Folan,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">and Nicole McArdle.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Special thanks to Ramona Rosales for her sensitivity, humor, and artistry,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Hazel Orme for her careful copyedits, Hilary McClellen for her superb fact-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">checking, Tricia Wygal for her eagle-eyed readings—likewise Elizabeth<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Carbonell, Tory Klose, Janet Renard, and Megha Jain. |
99 | spare.txt | 848 | Thank you for the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">huge team effort.<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">440<span class="Apple-converted-space"> the face.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Something has to change. |
99 | spare.txt | 849 | Please?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">It will.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I opened my mouth to the sky, to the moon.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">To the future.<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">281<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">Aaaah.<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">282<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">part 3 captain of my soul<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">283<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">| WAS SITTING around Nott Cott, scrolling through Instagram. |
99 | spare.txt | 850 | In my feed I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">saw a video: My friend Violet. |
99 | spare.txt | 851 | And a young woman.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">They were playing with a new app that put silly filters on your photos.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Violet and the woman had dog ears, dog noses, long red dog tongues<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">hanging out.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Despite the canine cartoon overlay, I sat up straighter.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">This woman with Violet...my God.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I watched the video several times, then forced myself to put down the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">phone.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Then picked it up again, watched the video again.<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 traveled the world, from top to bottom, literally. |
99 | spare.txt | 852 | I’d hopscotched the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">continents. |
99 | spare.txt | 853 | I’d met hundreds of thousands of people, I’d crossed paths with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">a ludicrously large cross-section of the planet’s seven billion residents. |
99 | spare.txt | 854 | For<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">thirty-two years I’d watched a conveyor-belt of faces pass by and only a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">handful ever made me look twice. |
99 | spare.txt | 855 | This woman stopped the conveyor-belt.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">This woman smashed the conveyor-belt to bits.<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 never seen anyone so beautiful.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Why should beauty feel like a punch in the throat? |
99 | spare.txt | 856 | Does it have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">something to do with our innate human longing for order? |
99 | spare.txt | 857 | Isn’t that what<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">scientists say? |
99 | spare.txt | 858 | And artists? |
99 | spare.txt | 859 | That beauty is symmetry and therefore<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">represents a relief from the chaos? |
99 | spare.txt | 860 | Certainly my life to that point had been<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">chaotic. |
99 | spare.txt | 861 | I can’t deny hungering for order, can’t deny seeking a bit of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">beauty. |
99 | spare.txt | 862 | I’d just come back from a trip with Pa, Willy and Kate to France,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> |
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