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he was that I was his—you’d feel so good that...
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that loved you—maybe you’d neve...
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THE VERSION THEY TELL me goes: Ellie fell in love.
Her lover had no name. “They tried to kill
her husband,” my sister once whispered to me. She ...
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our grandpa. On Tuesday nights, when inte...
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studies of the University of Central Oklah...
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my
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sister and I sat in the corners of dark church build...
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pasto...
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everyone else was Korean. We were the...
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could find crackers or candy no matter how well-hidden...
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The TVs never worked. The ping-pong tables n...
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We wandered the halls quietly, or my mom wou...
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shush us with eyes gigantic like, “Don’t m...
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“Ellie and her lover tried to kill her husband,” my sister said.
“Don’t say that.” “They did.” “I mean, call him boyfriend
or somet...
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“Ellie got him to sneak into ...
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to shoot him.” “Why didn’t she just shoot ...
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said. “Because that’s a boyfr...
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My Baba Haji killed a bull for me, so maybe love is always measured by what you’re willing to kill.
They didn’t care.
Escape was all that mattered.
Ellie’s mind might have broken right then. No one knows. But she was never again completely sane. She half heard the steam whistle
blow, and half watched the train pull out of the station.
The man waited for her to see the last car pull away from the platform, the last hope that t...
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When it was quiet again, he said, “The boy is dead.”
“You’ll never see his face again.”
Ellie had nowhere in the entire world—at that moment—to be...
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Even the nook of a tree can make you feel safe if you hide yourself in it. Somewhere in some dark gully in a back corner ...
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slaughtered, blood flowing from his neck for stray dogs to lick at, u...
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He said, “Arman Khan”—her husband—“says he won’t
hurt you. But you can’t live here anymore.”
My sister explained that what he meant was that Ellie would b...
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She would have...
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Sanaz, her youngest daughter, because she was eleven and Arman didn’t want to...
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“She was already packed,” I pointed out...
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What did Arman say when she went back to get Sanaz? What did they tell Sanaz, or the others?
No one ever told us. It was just exile. Stop talking about
it.
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The trick is to keep your stories to yourself, so they can’t use them against you.
In the movies, kids get fishing trips with their grandpas, and grandmothers give them hugs.
Maybe my memories are only worth a couple peach pits to you.
All the pieces are in place for you to understand what happened and how we ended up in Oklahoma.
When I tell you what happens next, you’ll see how everyone played their part. It’s not so hard to believe if you’ve got the memories I’ve got. And only a few moments would be something you might have to call mythical.
You don’t even have to believe those parts if you don’t want to. But they’re all true. So I think you should.
a tae kwon do move called deflection.
My mom will get the note. But she’ll have to beg a doctor in our Bible study for a notepad. This is ridiculous because she’s a doctor, and because she works in a notepad factory. She says, “Okay. Thank you,” and walks out,
In my other classes I make sure to answer all the questions. This is a good trick for friend-making. Don’t laugh. I’m not wrong about this. It’s not that I think people will admire me and be my friend.
