She said: "They had to leave in a hurry taking what they could quickly grab before they left. The others were coming for them and they had to be gone quickly. The war was over and the grand homes were now mostly emptied of people, except for the ones who tended the fields. Except for the dark ones who tended the house, except for the Asians who poured the cooling drinks for them. They had to leave by horseback and by helecopter from the roof of the embassy, and this was their last chance to go before it all came down around them and the world that they had built around them to be safe and to have the life they thought was theirs to have for the taking. Now, they had to leave before it all came down around them and the things that they loved."

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