felt urge tell more, explain abortions done war, hadn’t realised later — Tahmima Anam, Good Muslim

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She felt the urge to tell him more, to explain about the abortions she had done after the war, and that she hadn’t realised until later, much later, that she had racked up a debt she was still struggling to repay. How could he know – he was just a soldier, he had killed as a matter of principle, but the war babies, the children of rape, had been left to junior doctors, the volunteers in ragged tents on the outskirts of town.

Tahmima Anam, The Good Muslim

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