From What is the What, which has few if any Tasmanian prison camps thus far, but more African refugee camps. About the same proportion of violence slavery and genocide.
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Playing doctor:
-Now we'll play hide and seek, Agar said. -First, you have to find something that I hid here. Agar pointed to her chest. I took in a quick breath. Even thinking of it now, I cannot believe it happened, that I was chosen for these experiments! But this happened, exactly as I say it did, and next she said the words that I still hear today, when I close my eyes and lay my head to rest.
-You have to look for it. With your hand.
I glanced to the other girls for help. They nodded at me. They were all in on this! I felt as able to put my hand under her shirt as I might make fire from earwax.
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Follow-up to Who's on First?
The story to that starts on page 61 which is part of the Google Books preview. It's an interesting story.
Reminds me of the old Malcolm X poem.
viz.
That thing came up outta her ear ON FIRE?
(I couldn't find one* with the hand-up-the-shirt, so I went with the burning earwax)
*truth content not exactly as pictured
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