At the beginning of August we were given the opportunity to move into a different house, on top of a hill overlooking Bagdad. This was a privilege that we thought might not come along again in a hurry, and wanting to get away from the microscope in the middle of town, soon accepted. It's a smaller house than where we had been previously living, and there's a lot of wildlife around which we really like. But the house has one feature that as I like to say, "you don't find everywhere": the backyard has an unobstructed view of one of the mine's waste dumps. When I first started telling people that we were moving to the top of the hill, several of them laughed because they knew how close the house is to the dump. But then someone said something to me that I thought was pretty smart: when they look out the window and see the waste dump, they don't see something ugly. They see a reminder that they are employed and can provide for their family, which I think is absolutely right!
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