Beneath smoke now blackening the ceiling, Alan was sitting peacefully, chatting once more with his three new best friends, Snap, Crackle, and Pop.
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I told her my surname. She shook her head. She meant the one that came before the surname and before the English first name on my passport.
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She realised that as Noor Ahmad she at least felt like a person. As Nooria, she returned to being a shadow. Returning was harder than changing.
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If an English person were asked where our Midwest was, they’d know the person who asked was probably American.
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If you have ever bought a transit ticket in a European city, you know the particular humiliation of it.
