IF: Brave

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"Give me your hand, my loved one, and
we will hide in the meadow
To love or fall down beneath the knife stabs.

I jump in the river, but the current does
not carry me away.
My husband is fortunate; I am always thrown
back onto the bank.

Tomorrow morning I will be killed
because of you.
Do not say that you did not love me."

("The Bookseller of Kabul" by Åsne Seierstad)