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My husband took this photo while serving in Afghanistan.

Journaling:

Who is she? I imagine she is someone's daughter, someone's wife, someone's mother... I don't know for sure. I do know that she sold toilet paper beside the kabob stand. She would not speak to men outside of her family, so I don't know if she spoke English. I imagine that she still wore the berka because that is what she was taught to do. Does she want to shed this second skin that hides her from the world? Or is she happy because it is a part of her? How has her life changed since the war? Does she find it harder to meet her day to day needs? Or is it better? Did she choose to vote in the first election? Was she allowed to vote in the first election? Or was she kept away by her male family members? Sadly, I will never know.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Electric District
12/29/02

(I got the idea to layer the photo from Starla - moon16 on another site)


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