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p.	The Taliban had ordered all the girls and women in Afghanistan to stay inside their homes.
p.	Parvana had to leave her sixth grade class and her sister Nooria was not allowed to go to her high school.
...	For more than a year now, they had all been stuck inside one room, along with five year-old Maryam and two-year-old Ali.
...	Parvana did get out for a few hours most days to help her father walk.
...	Now the customer asked her father to read his letter again. "Read it slowly, so that I can remember it for my family."
...	They had a big house with a courtyard, a couple of servants, a television set, a refrigerator, a car.
...	Bombs had been part of Pravana's whole life. Every day, every night, rockets would fall out of the sky, and someone's house would explode.
...	The word Taliban meant religious scholars, but Parvana's father told her that religion was about teaching people how to be better human beings, how to be kinder.
...	Kabul had once been beautiful. Nooria remembered whole sidewalks, traffic lights that changed color, even trips to restaurants and cinemas...
...	The whole family was laughing when four Taliban soldiers burst through the door.
...	Helping Mother down the broken stairs was a little like helping Father, as the billowing burqa made it hard for her to see where she was going.
...	Photographs were illegal. Any one of these people could turn Parvana and her mother over to the militia.
...	The prison was dark and ugly, and it made Parvana feel even smaller.
...	"We are Afghans. This is our home. If all the educated people leave, who will rebuild the country?"
...	"As a boy, you'll be able to move in and out of the market, buy what we need, and no one will stop you," Mother said.
...	"Mrs. Weera and I are going to work together," Mother announced. "We're going to start a magazine."
...	"What the bombs didn't get, the bandits did. Makes it easier to move, though, doesn't it?"
...	There wasn't a single intact building in the whole area, just piles of bricks, dust and rubble.
...	All she could remember was that some were disguised as toys-special mines to blow up children.
...	"When we're rich old ladies, we'll drink tea together and talk about this day."
...	"These are unusual times. They call for ordinary people to do unusual things, just to get by."
...	"It's awfully quiet for a soccer game," Shauzia said.
...	Several soldiers held him down, his arm stretched across the table-top.
...	"I'm saving money, a little bit each day. I'm getting out of here."
...	"I just want to be an ordinary kid again... sit in a classroom and go home and eat food that someone else has worked for."
...	...Pravana saw tribal peoples from Bamiyan, from the desert region near Kandahar (Qandahar), and from the Wakhan Corridor near China.
...	I'll be living in Mazar-e-Sharif, in the north. The Taliban aren't in that part of Afghanistan.
...	She'd seen the Taliban hit a child for banging on an old board like it was a drum. The Taliban hated music.

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