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21 The Cross-Eyed Girl The cross-eyed girl, the one other children did not befriend teaches you all about djinn— How they appear without warning in steamy bath houses, hooves knocking the tile floors, so the women—breasts hanging on stomachs, long black hair limp-wet on their backs— bite the flesh between thumb and forefinger —once, twice, three times— then: Allah-u-Akbar. But she never fears the djinn because they do not know which eye to look into, do not know which way to her soul. ...

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