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...exclusion of everything else. Her small home in Baghdad's working-class al-Ghadeer district is filthy; the rooms are damp and smell of rotting garbage. Her pets, a mangy brown pup and two molting cats, have shed clumps of fur on her bed, an old foam mattress on the living-room floor. There are pieces of stale bread everywhere. But the squalor doesn't seem to bother Nouman. She has lived in much worse places - a succession of prison cells, torture chambers and mental-hospital wards. Her living room may be fetid, but it is home...
Pemberton’s face brightened as a crew came in with a new mattress to replace her now soggy...
...before was awful,” she said. “I was, like, having back problems from the old mattress...
...Queen tries to test Lilybell by placing a pea under her mattress, but the prince’s servant and rapper, Pea-Ditty, manages to confuse the Queen’s henchmen into putting him under the mattress instead. He wakes the potential princess so she can pass the test, and they all live happily ever after—except for the henchmen, who get fired, and the Queen, who must sleep on the royal couch for some weeks to come...
...white pickup rolled up, and the crowd got silent. A body wrapped in a yellow-and-orange blanket was lifted out of the bed. A nurse tried to dump out the puddles that had collected on the plastic mattress of a gurney and the body was lifted onto it. "He was 70 years old," said one of the crowd. "A martyr...