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99 | spare.txt | 76 | He reacted as if it were blood.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I can’t remember what punishment we received. |
99 | spare.txt | 77 | Another clout with the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">New English Bible? |
99 | spare.txt | 78 | Detention? |
99 | spare.txt | 79 | (Often called det.) |
99 | spare.txt | 80 | A trip class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">make sure I had the right stuff. |
99 | spare.txt | 81 | For several weeks they poked my body,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">probed my mind.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Drug-free, they concluded. |
99 | spare.txt | 82 | They seemed surprised.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Also, videos to the contrary notwithstanding, not a total thicko.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br><... |
99 | spare.txt | 83 | Bright yellow, fixed wing,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">single prop.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Simple machine, according to my first flight instructor, Serg... |
99 | spare.txt | 84 | Didn’t look simple to me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I turned to Booley, studied him. |
99 | spare.txt | 85 | He wasn’t simple either. |
99 | spare.txt | 86 | Short, solid,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">tough, he’d fought in Iraq and the Balkans and should’ve been a hard case,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">given all he’d seen and been through, but in fact he seemed... |
99 | spare.txt | 87 | On the contrary, he was all gentleness.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">He needed to be. |
99 | spare.txt | 88 | With so much on my mind, I entered our sessions wildly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">distracted, and it showed. |
99 | spare.txt | 89 | I kept expecting Booley to lose patience, to begin<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">shouting at me, but he never did. |
99 | spare.txt | 90 | In fact, after one session, he invited me for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">a motorbike ride in the country. |
99 | spare.txt | 91 | Lets go and clear our heads, Lieutenant<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Wales.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">174<spa... |
99 | spare.txt | 92 | :me/Afghansalarlibrary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">It worked. |
99 | spare.txt | 93 | Like a charm. |
99 | spare.txt | 94 | And the motorbike, a gorgeous Triumph 675,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">was a timely reminder of what I was after in these flight lessons. |
99 | spare.txt | 95 | Speed and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">power.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">And freedom.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><s... |
99 | spare.txt | 96 | On one of our first flights<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">together, with no warning, Booley threw the aircraft into a stall. |
99 | spare.txt | 97 | I felt the left<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">wing dip, a sickening feeling of disorder, of entropy, and then, after several<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">seconds that felt like decades, he recovered the airc... |
99 | spare.txt | 98 | What in the absolute—?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Was this all the options, silence was the least<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">desirable, the least defensibl... |
99 | spare.txt | 99 | We couldn’t just let the press continue to do<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">this to Meg.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Even after I'd convinced him that we neede... |
99 | spare.txt | 100 | Courtiers blocked us hard.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Nothing can be done, they said. |
99 | spare.txt | 101 | And therefore nothing wil/ be done.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I accepted this as final. |
99 | spare.txt | 102 | Until I read an essay in the Huffington Post. |
99 | spare.txt | 103 | The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">essayist said the mild reaction of Britons to this explosion of racism was to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">be expected, since they were the heirs of racist colonialists. |
99 | spare.txt | 104 | But what was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">truly “unforgivable,” she added, was my silence.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Mine.<span class="Apple-converted-space... |
99 | spare.txt | 105 | No more debate, no more discussion. |
99 | spare.txt | 106 | We needed a statement<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">out there.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Within a day we had a draft. |
99 | spare.txt | 107 | Strong, precise, angry, honest. |
99 | spare.txt | 108 | I didn’t<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">think it would be the end, but maybe the beginning of the end.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I read it one last time and a... |
99 | spare.txt | 109 | :me/Afghansalarlibrary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">UST HOURS BEFORE THAT statement went out, Meg was on her way to see m<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></sp... |
99 | spare.txt | 110 | The lounge was full, so an Air Canada representative took<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">pity on her and hid her in a side room. |
99 | spare.txt | 111 | Even brought her a plate of food.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">By the time she landed at Heathrow my statement was everywhere. |
99 | spare.txt | 112 | And<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">changing nothing. |
99 | spare.txt | 113 | The onslaught continued.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">In fact, my statement generated a whole new onslaught—from my<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">family. |
99 | spare.txt | 114 | Pa and Willy were furious. |
99 | spare.txt | 115 | They gave me an earful. |
99 | spare.txt | 116 | My statement<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">made them look bad, they both said.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Why in hell?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </s... |
99 | spare.txt | 117 | It was <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Over dinner one night at Highgrove, Pa and I spoke at some length about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">what I’d been suffering. |
99 | spare.txt | 118 | I gave him the particulars, told him story after story.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Towards the end of the meal he looked down at his plate and said softly: /<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">suppose it’s my f... |
99 | spare.txt | 119 | I should’ve got you the help you needed years ago.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I assured him that it wasn’t his fault. |
99 | spare.txt | 120 | But I appreciated the apology.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">As autumn neared my anxiety was heightened, I think, by my impending<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">b... |
99 | spare.txt | 121 | Dregs of my youth, I thought. |
99 | spare.txt | 122 | I was beset<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">by all the traditional doubts and fears, asked myself all the basic questions<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">people ask when they get older. |
99 | spare.txt | 123 | Who am I? |
99 | spare.txt | 124 | Where am I going? |
99 | spare.txt | 125 | Normal, I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">told myself, except that the press was abnormally echoing my self-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">questioning.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p ... |
99 | spare.txt | 126 | quacks, to try to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">make sense of it. |
99 | spare.txt | 127 | Books about me dived into my love life, homed in on each<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">romantic failure and near miss. |
99 | spare.txt | 128 | I seem to recall one detailing my flirtation<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">with Cameron Diaz. |
99 | spare.txt | 129 | Harry just couldn’t see himself with her, the author<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">reported. |
99 | spare.txt | 130 | Indeed I couldn’t, since we’d never met. |
99 | spare.txt | 131 | I was never within fifty<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">meters of Ms. Diaz, further proof that if you like reading pure bollocks then<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">royal biographies are just your thing.<span c... |
99 | spare.txt | 132 | The great controversies about kings and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">queens, going back centuries, generally centered on whom they married, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">whom they didn’t, and the childre... |
99 | spare.txt | 133 | You<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">weren’t a fully vested member of the Royal Family, indeed a true human<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">being, until you were wed. No coincidence that Granny, head of state in<s... |
99 | spare.txt | 134 | Stay busy, I told myself as I flew away from Botswana. |
99 | spare.txt | 135 | In the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">short while left before you ship to Afghanistan, just stay busy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">To that end, I went to Lesoth... |
99 | spare.txt | 136 | We visited several schools<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">built by Sentebale. |
99 | spare.txt | 137 | Prince Seeiso was with us; he’d co-founded the charity<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">with me back in 2006, shortly after losing his own mother. |
99 | spare.txt | 138 | (His mother had<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">also been a fighter in the war against HIV.) |
99 | spare.txt | 139 | He took us to meet scores of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">children, each with a wrenching story. |
99 | spare.txt | 140 | The average life expectancy in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Lesotho at that time was forty-something, while in Britain it was seventy-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">nine for men, eighty-two for women. |
99 | spare.txt | 141 | Being a child in Lesotho was like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">being middle-aged in Manchester, and while there were various complicated<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">reasons for this, the main one was HIV.<... |
99 | spare.txt | 142 | Way off. |
99 | spare.txt | 143 | As a gift Prince Seeiso gave us wild<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">ponies, to ride part of the way, and tribal blankets for the cold. |
99 | spare.txt | 144 | We wore<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">them as capes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Our first stop was a frozen village in the clouds: Semonkong. |
99 | spare.txt | 145 | Some<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">seven thousand feet above sea level, it lay between snow-tipped mountains.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Plumes of warm air spurted from the horses’ noses as we pushed them ... |
99 | spare.txt | 146 | Shepherd boys would<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">come here twice a week, have a hot meal, go to a class. |
99 | spare.txt | 147 | We sat in semi-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">darkness, beside a paraffin lamp, watching a lesson, and then we sat on the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><b... |
99 | spare.txt | 148 | :me/Afghansalarlibrary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">ground with a dozen boys, some as young as eight. |
99 | spare.txt | 149 | We listened to them<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">describe their daily trek to our school. |
99 | spare.txt | 150 | It defied belief: after twelve hours of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">tending their cattle and sheep, they’d walk for two hours through mountain<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">passes just to learn maths, readi... |
99 | spare.txt | 151 | Such was their hunger to learn.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">They braved sore feet, bitter cold—and far worse. |
99 | spare.txt | 152 | They were so vulnerable<span class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">85.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">i NAMIBIA, CROSSING the northern... |
99 | spare.txt | 153 | They were heavily<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">persecuted in that part of Namibia, because they often encroached on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">farmland. |
99 | spare.txt | 154 | The doctor was darting some, to study their health and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">movements. |
99 | spare.txt | 155 | He took our number, told us he’d call if he found one.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">That night we made camp by a dry stream. |
99 | spare.txt | 156 | Everyone else was in tents, in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">trucks, but I unrolled my mat by the fire and covered myself with a thin<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">blanket.<span class="Apple-converted-space">... |
99 | spare.txt | 157 | This area is full of lions,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">boss.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I told them I’d be fine. |
99 | spare.txt | 158 | Done it a million times.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Around midnight the radio buzzed. |
99 | spare.txt | 159 | The doctor. |
99 | spare.txt | 160 | He was four kilometers<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">away and he’d just darted two lions.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">We jumped into the Land Cruiser, raced do... |
99 | spare.txt | 161 | Namibian<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">soldiers assigned to us by the government insisted on coming as well. |
99 | spare.txt | 162 | As did<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">local police in the area. |
99 | spare.txt | 163 | Despite the pitch-dark, we found the doctor easily.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">He was standing beside two enormous lions. |
99 | spare.txt | 164 | Both were lying on their<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">bellies, heads resting heavily on their giant paws. |
99 | spare.txt | 165 | He aimed his torch. |
99 | spare.txt | 166 | We<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">could see the lions’ chests rising and falling. |
99 | spare.txt | 167 | Quiet breathing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I knelt beside the female, touched her skin, looked at her half-closed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">amber eyes. |
99 | spare.txt | 168 | I can’t explain it, and I can’t defend it...but I felt that I knew<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">her.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"... |
99 | spare.txt | 169 | :me/Afghansalarlibrary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">As I stood, one of the Namibian soldiers brushed past me, crouched<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>... |
99 | spare.txt | 170 | A big male. |
99 | spare.txt | 171 | The soldier held up his AK-47, asked one<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">of his buddies to get a photo. |
99 | spare.txt | 172 | As if he’d made a kill.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I was about to say something, but Billy the Rock beat me to it. |
99 | spare.txt | 173 | He told<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">the Namibian soldier to get the fuck away from the lions.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Sullen, the soldier slunk away.<spa... |
99 | spare.txt | 174 | There was a flash. |
99 | spare.txt | 175 | I turned<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">again, </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">time they set it upon her head.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">It ... |
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