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...early twenties, says she is looking forward to the months ahead. "There will be so much construction work here, my husband and brothers will all have jobs," she says, grinning broadly. "When God takes with one hand, he gives with the other." But as night falls, Malati grows quiet, edgy. After dinner, she is the last person to turn in. Then, just short of midnight, we are awakened by a piercing scream from the women's tent. It is Malati, shouting in her sleep: "Get me out! Get me out!" I learn that she has been doing this every night...
...only watched All's Quiet on the Western Front and Seven Samurais," he says...
...control room was quiet except for the diving officer who called out depths as the sub ascended. "One-zero-zero feet ... nine-five feet." "Push the wheel forward so the sub begins leveling out," he whispered to me. The planes now had to move in the opposite direction to slow the ascent so the sub didn't overshoot and broach the surface. I pushed. "Scope's breaking," announced the lieutenant, his face pressed to the periscope eyepiece as its lens above sprouted from the water. He swiveled around with the periscope pasted to his face. "No close contacts," he finally...
...control room was quiet except for the diving officer who called out depths as the sub ascended. "One-zero-zero feet...nine-five feet." "Push the wheel forward so the sub begins leveling out," he whispered to me. The planes now had to move in the opposite direction to slow the ascent so the sub didn't overshoot and broach the surface. I pushed. "Scope's breaking," announced the lieutenant, his face pressed to the periscope eyepiece as its lens above sprouted from the water. He swiveled around with the periscope pasted to his face. "No close contacts," he finally...
Twenty is a more understated birthday than the others, a quiet affirmation of adulthood, a small indication of the official end of childhood, the last suggestion of innocence...