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Interview with a Birangona: 4. Were there other women there? Did you get along with them?
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30 Interview with a Birangona 4. Were there other women there? Did you get along with them? Between us: a dark metal bucket, our hands touching. We pulled water together from the muddy river we used to sit beside before we belonged to that smokewatered world missing brothers and husbands and fathers. I ask for Allah’s forgiveness: I didn’t know I would cherish the vermilion streak she drew into the seam of her parted hair. I didn’t know my body’s worth until they came for it. I held her as she shook at night: pond water scored by storm. She held me as I shook at dawn. Don’t you know 31 they made us watch her head fall from the rusted blade of the old jute machine? That they made us made us made us made us made us? ...