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Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Quotes: Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.
         

Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.


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