Nice image

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This is a shot that doesn't make it to IotD for kinda technical reasons... it's too ordinary.



Look at it.

What is it? Totally ordinary. There isn't much to it. Maybe a little too cutesy. Three typical young girls. So what?

Left to right, Nazi, Shadaba and Eqlima wait to go outside and play during an indoor ceremony officially opening the newly installed playground and the re-opening of the refurbished Khar Khana Kindergarten, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2003, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The school and playground were refurbished by the British contingent of the International Security Assistance Force.

Three girls who are bored with all the pomp and circumstance, and who just want to go outside and play. And now you see it again and say: I'm so glad these little girls are bored, or in the case on the right, anguished. Because they have to sit with their new school materials in a new school, waiting to play on their new playground, when 3 years ago females were not allowed to be taught to read or to show themselves at all.

History turned the right way for these girls. Fortune and the British taxpayers have given them a chance, at just the right age.

The coiffed hair, the baby-fat cheeks, the alert eyes, all look like great things now. They aren't ordinary at all.

The middle one is cute, and it reminds me that Afghanistan under the Taliban found itself with rather high rates of homosexuality. The very simple explanation: "If we cannot see the faces, we do not know if they are pretty," said one Afghan man.

I do not understand this, because the Afghan women, they are all pretty.