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afghan grievous salad But always the hunger outlasted the money. And finally, six weeks ago, Mohammed did something that has become ruefully unremarkable in this desperate country. He took two of his 10 children to the bazaar of the nearest city and traded them for bags of wheat.
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Gone now from his home are the boys, Sher, 10, and Baz, 5.
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"What else could I do?" the bereft father asked last weekend in Kangori, a remote hamlet in the mountains of northern Afghanistan. He did not want to seem uncaring. "I miss my sons, but there was nothing to eat," he said, casting a glance sideways to prove that his misery was hardly unusual.
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In the nearby foothills, enfeebled people were coming back from foraging for wild spinach and even blades of grass - a harvest of hideously bitter greenery that can be made edible only if boiled long enough.
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