Communist Daughter

March 2011

11 posts

Mar 29, 2011

Today, I’m back home with my family. Six months ago in Afghanistan I was shot three times. As I was bleeding and slowly losing consciousness an Afghan civilian who I’ve never met carried me to safety and alerted a US medic of my whereabouts. I don’t even know his name, but he’s the only reason I’m alive to tell this story.

Mar 22, 2011

*rana june: Words That Don't Exist in the English Language → ranajune.com

Gheegle: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.

Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.

Sgriob: (Gaelic) The itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whisky

L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you…

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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” John Steinbeck

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