To children lost and wandering far from their homes
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ONE When did Mrs Weera say she would be back Shauzia had asked that question so many times that the woman in Mrs Weera’s hut didn’t even look up She simply raised an arm and pointed at the door All right I’m going Shauzia said But I’m not going far I’ll sit in the doorway until she comes back But the woman at the makeshift table was absorbed in her work Not only was this the office for the Widows Compound the section of the refugee camp where widows and their children lived It was also the office for a secret women’s organization that operated on the other side of the Pakistan border in Afghanistan The Taliban were still in power there Mrs Weera’s organization ran secret schools clinics and a magazine Shauzia was tempted to jump onto the table and kick the papers onto the dirt floor just to get a reaction Instead she
