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Letter from Martha Gelhorn after my 21st birthday party
When courting my (future) wife, I gave her six year old sister a Paddington Bear. This is the thank you letter I received
Basel, do you know what happens when you blow yourself up? You don`t go to heaven. You go into a hole in the ground, and you get covered up with dirt."
Rafiq Hamdouna, a former Fatah leader, to his son who said he wanted to be a martyr bomber. Quoted in The New Yorker, September 11, 2006