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Sep. 23 2009 - 2:06 pm | 248 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments

Girls In The Trunk Of A Car

I just got stuck in a two-hour traffic jam involving police checkpoints, donkeys and a $hit-ton of dust so I don’t know if I have any posts in me today. At the risk of turning The Desk into some kind of Kabul traffic report (see post below) I’m just going to show you a picture from my trip home. After clearing the last checkpoint, we saw a car jammed with about ten little kids plus these few stuffed in the trunk. We were going about 35km and I figure the white car was doing about 40.

Girl trunk 1

Girl Trunk 2

It’s the last day of the Eid holiday, so there has been much feasting and hanging out over the last few days. Guess these girls were on their way to a party.


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    I guess that’s pretty low on the scale of safety issues in an Kabuli girl’s life, and gosh they are super adorable. Happy Eid, sweet little girls!

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    What Saheli said – great to see those beautiful smiles!

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    What a fantastic moment captured! Beautiful.

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