Daily electricity cuts in Ramadi limited life to eating, sleeping, talking

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With her mother back in the United States, Lina felt free. On the other hand, there was nothing to do. The majority of the day, the electricity was cut off, so she couldn’t watch television. She couldn’t do anything, really, but eat, sleep, and talk in her aunt’s cavernous home. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 627