And now rumors from the White House, the man on the radio said, claim that the president is hoping to broker another round of troop withdrawals—this time from Afghanistan—sometime by Christmas. Let’s go over to Lisa, who’s in Washington… The two stopped and listened, their heads angled in attention, truly believing that the worst, both here and elsewhere, was over. It was the kind of day where anything felt possible. As if the charity of the world had tipped, finally, to one side of the rusted scale. The kind of day where you can fill in your scars with Magic Marker and tell yourself you’re
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Truly a hopeful time <3
