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“And I silently vowed to God to love this babe, keep her safe from the harm and hate my and my family, and their families, had suffered. It stops with Honey. I closed my eyes and lifted a fierce declaration to God, to mankind.”

“‘Why couldn’t You let him grow up?” I curled myself into a tight ball on the blood-soaked Kentucky soil, wailing for Henry and all the Henrys in those dark hollows who’d never be a common grown-up. Stuck forever as Peter Pans.”

I’m so intrigued to see what Cussie’s first trip to Lexington is like. It’s so interesting because it feels like my experience moving from Louisville to London but in the inverse…

They “didn’t see it happening at first. Without their say, their city became a Petri dish for ideological experiments that would one day produce an explosion of hatred on the other side of the world. But they were its first victims.”

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“[T]hey were blinded to the consequences of their creation because they could not recognize the intolerance of their own ideology.”

The relationship between SA and Iran pre-1979 is so interesting—they were better allies then despite Iran’s modernization than after Khomeini came to be Supreme Leader. Of course, it makes sense, given the clash between the two countries thereafter to “be the top” of the Muslim world—Sunni Wahhabism v. Shia fundamentalism, but wow.
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Iranian women “were handed a black shroud in the name of freedom.”