On April 17, 1978, the year Mariam turned nineteen, a man named Mir Akbar Khyber was found murdered.
Two days later, there was a large demonstration in Kabul.
Everyone in the neighborhood was in the streets talking about it.
Through the window, Mariam saw neighbors milling about, chatting excitedly, transistor radios pressed to their ears.
She saw Fariba leaning against the wall of her house, talking with a woman who was new to Deh Mazang.
Fariba was smiling, and her palms were pressed against the swell of her pregnant belly.
The other woman, whose name escaped Mariam, looked older than Fariba, and her hair had an odd purple tint to it.
She was holding a little boy's hand. Mariam knew the boy's name was Tariq,
because she had heard this woman on the street call after him by that name.
Mariam and Rasheed didn't join the neighbors. They listened in on the radio as some ten thousand people poured into the streets
and marched up and down Kabul's government district. Rasheed said that Mir Akbar Khyber had been a prominent communist,
and that his supporters were blaming the murder on President Daoud Khan's government.
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