17, Kim Wilde Her parents go on a trip to Turkey and get her illegal posters and Western clothing, she goes to illegally buy tapes and almost gets arrested by the Guardians of the Revolution Ch. 16, The Passport Her uncle Taher is suffering from the stress of the war and his son being in Holland, and is also smoking, he has his third heart attack because of a grenade, the director will not give him a permit to leave the country for surgery, Ebi and Marji go to see Khosro, Ebi's friend, who made fake passports and is housing a communist girl, Niloufar, Taher dies before he can see his son again, Niloufar is executed and Khosro flees, Taher is buried the same day his passport arrives Ch. 15, The Cigarette Marji skips class with her 14 year-old friends, her mother gets angry at her and Marji calls her 'The Guardian of the Revolution of this house', Iraq proposed a settlement to end the war, but Iran refused, Marji smokes her first cigarette and says that with it she kissed her childhood goodbye Ch. 14, The Wine were bombed often, had to run down to the basement of their building for shelter, go to a party to celebrate the birth of her cousin, when the sirens start the aunt gives her the baby and runs, on the way home they get pulled over and Marji and her grandmother have to go in first and get rid of all of the traces of alcohol in their house Ch.

Nasrine's son, Shahab, her cousin who started his military service right as the war began tells them about the children who are sent out to war, Marji goes to her first party Ch. 13, The Key at school they have to mourn the dead by beating their breasts every day, the children dont take it seriously, they teachers punish them and call their parents in, but the parents yell at the teacher, talk about the key they gave their maid mrs.

12, The Jewels People in the south were being bombed, had to flee northward, mother's friend Mali and her family have to come to stay with them, they could only save some jewels, when they are in the supermarket women are insulting southern women Ch. 11, The F-14s They are bombed by the Iraqis for the first time, Marji is upset because her father doesnt want to fight, the Iranian national anthem is broadcast on TV, her classmate pardisse's father dies in the war, she said she would rather him be alive and in jail instead of dead and a hero Ch.

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