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Backta Vagen, yells my mother, yanking me backwards. It means, quite simply, Back off! Car. I shouted it across the street to a startled American classmate. The car whizzed past and the last fragments of my mother's language were exhumed as I stood, baffled by their antiquity, her rust in my mouth.

Balloons
Banana
Beirut
Black
Body
Brotherhood
Brown


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