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Black Wings: Love, Loss and Life as a Humanitarian Aid Worker in Iraq

July 4th, 2012

It was a cool, blue morning in Baghdad. I stood in the rubble of a bombed out building, a shell of what it had once been.

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Jamy Bond is a fiction and nonficition writer. Her work has appeared in The Sun, The Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, Peace Corps Writers and on National Public Radio's The Sound of Writing. She received a Fulbright grant in creative writing and spent three years in Mozambique researching and writing a novel. Most recently, she spent a year in Iraq working for the United States Agency for International Development. Her essay, What Feels Like Destiny,published in The Sun, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.