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Katherine Boo

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I'm not squeamish.
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I grew up in a second when my mother died,” he told Sunil. “My father and brother didn’t understand me.
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A girl could be virtuous without being perfect. Back.
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Still, Kasab seemed lucky to Abdul. “They will probably beat him lots in the jail,” Abdul said one day, “but at least Kasab knows in his heart that he did what they said he did.” That had to be less stressful than being beaten when you were innocent. The.
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Though Abdul had been afraid of ghosts as most Annawadi boys, these reports did no disturb him. Being terrorized by living people seemed to have diminished his fear of the dead.
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The astonishing thing is that some people are good, and that many others try to be.
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I think it’s this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.
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You think your work is dreaming?
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Only in the hours when the men came – husband at work, daughters at school – did the part of her body she had to offer feel more important than the part of it she lacked.
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Ghosts of women are the worst. Years go by and they don’t leave you be.
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