She thought it was like the game we played where each of us would take a turn being the bride, and now it was her turn.

My grandma helped her give birth to the child. She said the room was so cold that water froze in a glass. But all ten babies survived.

I said, “But she is such a cute and innocent baby. See, she isn’t even crying!” I got the most awful and cruelest reply.

We placed the TV on the ground and put a big blanket on top of it. For extra precaution everyone stuck their heads inside the blanket. There were three heads inside and the legs swinging outside, me and my sisters. We turned on the TV.

Prior to watching a movie, you had to set up the environment for it. We put thick, dark blankets on all the windows and turned off the lights because the Taliban would take turns searching all the houses for these things.