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99 | spare.txt | 676 | (It was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">bread and butter, Mummy’s favorite.) |
99 | spare.txt | 677 | The kitchen crew saw me, but I put a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">finger to my lips. |
99 | spare.txt | 678 | They chuckled.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Scurrying back into the meal tent, I gave Tiggy a wink. |
99 | spare.txt | 679 | I’d already taken<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">her into my confidence and she thought the whole caper brilliant. |
99 | spare.txt | 680 | I don’t<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">remember if I told Willy what I was up to. |
99 | spare.txt | 681 | Probably not. |
99 | spare.txt | 682 | I knew he wouldn’t<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">have approved.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I squirmed, counting the minutes until dessert was served, fighting... |
99 | spare.txt | 683 | Just outside the open tent was a tawny tail<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">swishing through the air.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Leopard!<span class="Apple-conv... |
99 | spare.txt | 684 | Except me. |
99 | spare.txt | 685 | I took a step towards it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Marko gripped my shoulder.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">T... |
99 | spare.txt | 686 | Holy fuck. |
99 | spare.txt | 687 | Then their eyes turned towards me. |
99 | spare.txt | 688 | Holy fuuuuck.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">They were all thinking the same thing, picturing the same banner headline<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">back home.<sp... |
99 | spare.txt | 689 | Heads would roll.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I wasn’t thinking about any of that. |
99 | spare.txt | 690 | I was thinking about Mummy. |
99 | spare.txt | 691 | That<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">leopard was clearly a sign from her, a messenger she’d sent to say:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Allis well. |
99 | spare.txt | 692 | And all will be well.<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">59<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"... |
99 | spare.txt | 693 | The next day, the pap photos appeared, and there<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">was a new flood of stories, a new surge along the many channels of social<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">media. |
99 | spare.txt | 694 | Racism, misogyny, criminal stupidity—it all increased.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Not knowing where else to turn, I phoned Pa.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"><... |
99 | spare.txt | 695 | :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’s not that simple, I said angrily. |
99 | spare.txt | 696 | I might lose this woman. |
99 | spare.txt | 697 | She might<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">either decide I’m not worth the bother, or the press might so poison the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">public that some idiot might do something bad, harm her in some w... |
99 | spare.txt | 698 | Death threats. |
99 | spare.txt | 699 | Her workplace<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">on lockdown because someone, reacting to what they’d read, had made a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">credible threat. |
99 | spare.txt | 700 | She’s isolated, I said, and afraid, she hasn’t raised the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">blinds in her house for months—and you’ re telling me not to read it?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p c... |
99 | spare.txt | 701 | This is sadly just the way it is.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I appealed to his self-interest. |
99 | spare.txt | 702 | Doing nothing was a terrible look for the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">monarchy. |
99 | spare.txt | 703 | People out there have strong feelings about what’s happening<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">to her, Pa. |
99 | spare.txt | 704 | They take it personally, you need to understand that.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">He was unmoved.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><... |
99 | spare.txt | 705 | Just a quick drive across<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">the Thames, past the park...but it felt like one of my polar journeys.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Hear... |
99 | spare.txt | 706 | She led me down a short corridor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">to her office.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">First door on the left.<span class="Apple-converted-s... |
99 | spare.txt | 707 | Windows with venetian blinds. |
99 | spare.txt | 708 | Right on the busy street.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">You could hear cars, shoes clicking on the pavement. |
99 | spare.txt | 709 | People talking,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">laughing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">She was fifteen years older than me, but youthful. |
99 | spare.txt | 710 | She reminded me of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Tiggy. |
99 | spare.txt | 711 | It was shocking, really. |
99 | spare.txt | 712 | Such a similar vibe.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I explained what I meant by normal. |
99 | spare.txt | 713 | I didn’t lead a normal life, because I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">couldn’t lead one. |
99 | spare.txt | 714 | Even my father reminds me that unfortunately Willy and I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">cant be normal. |
99 | spare.txt | 715 | I told the reporter that no one but Willy understood what it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">was like to live in this surreal fishbowl, in which normal events were treated<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">as abnor... |
99 | spare.txt | 716 | Poverty, disease, orphans—death. |
99 | spare.txt | 717 | It rendered<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">everything else rubbish. |
99 | spare.txt | 718 | In Lesotho, no matter what you were going through,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">you were well-off compared to others. |
99 | spare.txt | 719 | I suddenly felt ashamed, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">wondered if the journalist had sense enough to be ashamed too. |
99 | spare.txt | 720 | Sitting here<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">above all this misery and talking about page-three girls? |
99 | spare.txt | 721 | Come on.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">After the interview I went and found George and we drank beer. |
99 | spare.txt | 722 | A lot of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">beer. |
99 | spare.txt | 723 | Gallons of beer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I believe that was also the night I smoked an entire shopping bag of weed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><b... |
99 | spare.txt | 724 | Hard to be precise when it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">comes to a shopping bag full of weed.<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 ... |
99 | spare.txt | 725 | :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">March 2004.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p ... |
99 | spare.txt | 726 | For dinner. |
99 | spare.txt | 727 | Just one small problem.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">We didn’t know anyone in Cape Town.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">But wait—that wasn’t completely true. |
99 | spare.txt | 728 | ’'d met someone years earlier, a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">girl from South Africa. |
99 | spare.txt | 729 | At the Berkshire Polo Club.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Chelsy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I remembered her b... |
99 | spare.txt | 730 | They were children, incapable of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">understanding anything nuanced. |
99 | spare.txt | 731 | In their simplified cosmology: You’re<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">royal. |
99 | spare.txt | 732 | So. |
99 | spare.txt | 733 | This is the price you pay for living in a castle.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Sometimes I wondered how it might go if I could just talk to them,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><... |
99 | spare.txt | 734 | Billy had done a deep dive on their finances, so I knew.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Each Tweedle owned multiple houses, and several luxury cars, purchased<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">with proceeds from t... |
99 | spare.txt | 735 | (Offshore bank<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">accounts too, like their sponsors, the media barons who funded them, chiefly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Murdoch and the impossibly Dickensian-sounding Jonathan ... |
99 | spare.txt | 736 | )<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">It was around this time that I began to think Murdoch was evil. |
99 | spare.txt | 737 | No, strike<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">that. |
99 | spare.txt | 738 | I began to know that he was. |
99 | spare.txt | 739 | Firsthand. |
99 | spare.txt | 740 | Once you’ve been chased by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">someone’s henchmen through the streets of a busy modern city you lose all<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">doubt about where they stand on the Great Moral... |
99 | spare.txt | 741 | All my life ’'d<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">213<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p3"><spa... |
99 | spare.txt | 742 | 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">heard jokes about the links between royal misbehavior and centuries of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></sp... |
99 | spare.txt | 743 | Marrying your cousin is far less<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">dicey than becoming a profit center for Murdoch Inc.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Of course I did... |
99 | spare.txt | 744 | And I didn’t like the harm he did each and every day<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">to Truth, his wanton desecration of objective facts. |
99 | spare.txt | 745 | Indeed, I couldn’t think<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">of a single human being in the 300,000-year history of the species who’d<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">done more damage to our collective sense of realit... |
99 | spare.txt | 746 | But what really<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">sickened and frightened me in 2012 was Murdoch’s ever-expanding circle of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">flunkies: young, broken, desperate men willing to do whate... |
99 | spare.txt | 747 | I started to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">run for my Apache but my bodyguards stopped me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Way too dangerous.<span class="Apple-con... |
99 | spare.txt | 748 | Make ready! |
99 | spare.txt | 749 | MAKE READY!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">We all got into body armor and stood in the doorway to await the next<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">instructions. |
99 | spare.txt | 750 | As I double-checked my vest and helmet one bodyguard kept<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">up a constant patter: J knew this was going to happen, I just knew it, I told<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">everyone, bu... |
99 | spare.txt | 751 | Shut up, they said, but I told them, I told<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">them, Harry 8s going to get hurt! |
99 | spare.txt | 752 | Fuck off, they said, and now here we are.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">He was a Scot, with a thick burr, and often sounded like Sean Connery,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span... |
99 | spare.txt | 753 | : 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">like Sean Connery having a panic attack. |
99 | spare.txt | 754 | I cut off his long story about being<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">an unappreciated Cassandra and told him to put a sock in it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I f... |
99 | spare.txt | 755 | I had my 9-mm, but my SA80A was locked up. |
99 | spare.txt | 756 | I had my<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">bodyguards, but I needed my Apache. |
99 | spare.txt | 757 | That was the only place I'd feel safe<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">—and useful. |
99 | spare.txt | 758 | I needed to rain fire down on our attackers, whoever they<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">were.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">More explosions, louder explosions. |
99 | spare.txt | 759 | The windows flickered. |
99 | spare.txt | 760 | Now we<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">saw flames. |
99 | spare.txt | 761 | American Cobras came thumping overhead and the whole<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">building shuddered. |
99 | spare.txt | 762 | The Cobras fired. |
99 | spare.txt | 763 | The Apaches fired. |
99 | spare.txt | 764 | An awesome roar<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">filled the room. |
99 | spare.txt | 765 | We all felt dread, and adrenaline. |
99 | spare.txt | 766 | But we Apache pilots<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">were especially agitated, itching to get into our cockpits.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Someone reminded me ... |
99 | spare.txt | 767 | How<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">could we ever navigate our way from here to the helicopters without a map,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">while taking fire?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>... |
99 | spare.txt | 768 | The thump of rotors faded.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Bastion was secure again.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">B... |
99 | spare.txt | 769 | Two American soldiers were killed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Seventeen British and American soldiers were injured.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Throughout t... |
99 | spare.txt | 770 | Black tie, hard black shoes,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">trews. |
99 | spare.txt | 771 | Maybe even kilts.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">I thought: What hell, being an adult!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span><br></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1... |
99 | spare.txt | 772 | He was running late, but he made a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">show of lifting a silver dome—Yum, wish I was having that!—and taking a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">long sniff. |
99 | spare.txt | 773 | He was always sniffing things. |
99 | spare.txt | 774 | Food, roses, our hair. |
99 | spare.txt | 775 | He must’ve<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">been a bloodhound in another life. |
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