The last time we spoke to you, you were living on top of a bank in cabul. I would leave to go to work at lake eight, nine in the morning, everybody be lined up outside the bank. By the time i would come home, two, three in the afternoon, everyone would be gone because the money was gone. In avlone on, if you don't have cash, you're poor. And then so they come back to morrow. So that's become another issue.
That’s what the United Nations says is taking place in Afghanistan right now.
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