Ming Lauren Holden people I saw were consciousnesses like mine: that I was in something that looked a lot like them. I didn’t know I looked like a person. Being inside my own body was so different from looking at someone else’s. Easy, sway, kelp, calm.
dedicated to Kayla Jean Mueller (08/14/1988 – c. 02/06/2015)
Note: I misunderstood the note from Abu Faisal: it was Abu Mahrouz, the commander brother of Dr. Mahrouz, who was captured by ISIS, not the doctor himself. The commander, whose children are even younger than his brother the doctor’s, was released a few days later. He now heads what’s called “The 5th Corps,” an amalgamation of five FSA squads, at the request of the US government.
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