She said: "We were always afraid because of the illegal books. We would hide them in our room, but was always afraid that they would be found. It would have been very bad for both of us if the illegal books had been found. These books were banned! I loved to read Pearl Buck and Faulkner. Ahmina was always reading Camus and sometimes Hemingway. You could always find the outlaw books at the market. Sometimes someone would smuggle them in for you, but it was very dangerous. Every once in a while we would hear of a book seller who had been arrested for having banned books. I could stay up and read a book all night and be shaking with fatigue in the morning. It was dangerous, but we loved our illegal books."

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