sandbox
n.— «More than four months in the Middle East—the “sandbox” as some soldiers call it—hasn’t dampened his spirits any.» —“Soldier writes home while on duty in Iraq” by Jonathan Allen Fort Mill Times (S.C.) Mar. 3, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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Iranian-American poet Solmaz Sharif once observed that “The duty of the writer…is to remind us that we will die. And that we aren’t dead yet.” This is part of a complete episode.
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