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[theweaselking]

"They came for the children"

Remember, have the wrong colour of skin and the wrong religion? You're in the wrong country.

"I remember telling her the government doesn't go after 16-year-old girls," Ms. Lane said. "And in the last few days, I'm wrestling with the fact that, yes, it does."

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[silmaril.livejournal.com]

The English teacher’s most vivid recollection was of a day two months ago when she heard a kind of roar in the hallway of the school, which is full of colorful student collages and life-size sculptures in papier-mâché. The teenager had stopped wearing her veil, and she beamed as her fellow students, seeing her face for the first time, cheered.

I have tears in my eyes.