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55 In God’s Name In Baghdad, girls learned to hide words inside pillowcases and only removed them five times a day— to pray. Supplications turned to gold while they slept and blood to dust—on the long night’s road. But somehow they wept and found a way to rest with skulls cradled in the downy imprint of clandestine syllables. ...

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