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The Life of a Great School Student

Dena logar was a great school student during the reign of king sarshah's modernist regime. Duties included sneaking away from home on the first day of school to sign up for classes without permission from hajiatal, who thought school was for communists and kafer. Gradually learning to read and write and farcee an postor,. excelling at arithmetic, attempting to avoid ouble with the schoolboys and earning a reputation as a brawler. She also studied the auspicious and honorable kings of afghanistan.

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