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Amir talks about how " just one year after my mother died giving birth to me" hassan was born (6).
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Amir says that " none of us had seen Sanaubar since she had eloped with a band of singers and dancers in 1964" (210).
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Amir talks about how "there was a little shack, that Hassan was born in the winter of !964"(6)
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When amir was 5 years old "Baba decided to build an orphanage" (13)
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Amir says " I rembered the night in 1973, the night Zahir Shah's cousin overthrew him;" (365).
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Amir " thinks of that day in 1974, in the hospital room, just after Hassan's harelip surgery" (219).
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During the winter of 1974 "...Hassan and I werre playing in the yard, one day, building a snowfort"(44)
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Amir says, "In the winter of 1975, I saw Hassan run a kite for the last time"(55).
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In the first chapter Amir remembers that "I becme what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975" (1).
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Alot of my memories of 1975 were bad however "sometimes Rahim Kahn came over and Baba let me sit in his study and sip tea with them"(87).
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In Afganistan things were great considering that this was " Afganistan's last summer of peace and anonymity"(93).
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In the summer of "1976 I turned fourteen" (93).
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The first year soviets have invaded Iran and "parachuted into Kabul" (2).
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In the summer of !983 " I graduated from high school at the age of twenty,"(131).
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After !986, " the soviet air force was also rendered largely" and supplied missiles by the us (4).
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Amir remembers how he finished his first " novel, a father -son story set in Kabul" (182).
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By the summer of 1994 "Mullah Omar had nearly 12,000 followers" (2)
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During this time, "the Taliban take control of Afganistan" (3)
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After the Taliban was defeated," in 2001 the tTaliban continued to wage a guerilla warfare" (3).
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After the "2001 invasion the Taliban had been removed from power" (1).
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Afganistan had been taken over by "Hamid Karzai".
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In 2004 "mr. Karzai was elected president and served a 5 year term".(3).
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During July, " the obama administration had changed it's mind ", emphasising the forces to leave the country (4).
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After the war in Iran, "United States will have forces in the country untilat least the end of 2014" (1)