NOT SO LONG AGO WE KNEW WHAT PEACE FELT LIKE HERE IN KABUL CHILDREN WENT TO SCHOOL WOMEN WENT TO UNIVERSITY ALL THE EMPIRES FORGOT ABOUT US FOR A WHILE AT LEAST BUT IT DID NOT LAST FIRST THERE WAS A COUP DÉTAT THEN AN INVASION THEN A CIVIL WAR
IN THE CHAOS SOME LOOKED TO THOSE WHO PROMISED TO RESTORE ORDER BUT AT GREAT COST WOMEN SHOULD NOT GO OUTSIDE IF A WOMAN SHOWS HERSELF SHE WILL BE CURSED
PARVANA ARE YOU LISTENING WHY DON'T YOU TELL ME ABOUT OUR NOMADIC ANCESTORS AND AWAY KEEP AWAY FROM MY THINGS
HEY YOU WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU RE DOING WHY IS THIS GIRL SHOUTING SHE IS ONLY A CHILD SHE MEANT NOTHING BY IT SHE SHOULD BE AT HOME NOT DISPLAYING HERSELF IN THE MARKET 14