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To your question: Yes — but don’t hold your breath.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 3, 2026
To be Afghan is to try to hold your families and communities together while a succession of narratives are remixed, unmixed, overturned, reformed, forgotten and reinvented — and deployed as weapons against your people.
From Salon • Dec. 13, 2025
“Lord please hold your healing hand over Kris and guide him back to health and safety. Lord I ask that you please just get him through this safely.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025
"Lord please hold your healing hand over Kris and guide him back to health and safety. Lord I ask that you please just get him through this safely," Johnson wrote.
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025
“I wouldn’t let him hold your hand like that, Emma Lee,” Ben said.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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