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From: "David Filipov" <dmf@cityline.ru>
Subject: Re: 5538-Filipov/Land of Loss
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001
Dear David
Inexplicably, the first two paragraphs of the "Heart of the War" story got cut out of the internet version of the Globe (I hope it was only the internet version)
I really didn't want to write that piece - and thus broadcast to thousands of strangers the image of me bawling that I sought to hide from a few Afghan fighters -- but since it was published, and since you have republished it, your readers may appreciate having the beginning, so that the what and where of the story makes a bit more sense. I suppose, I don't know.
ON THE KOKCHA RIVER, Afghanistan _ I knew I had no business being here. Beneath me, the muddy rapids of the Kokcha river swirled, as my horse, flank-deep in muck, bucked and shied. Overhead, two American B-52s were dropping conducting a saturation bombing raid on Taliban positions on the hill just up the river.
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