Summary

The next morning Parvana and Shauzia walked with a group of others to a cemetery where they were going to dig up bones for money. They dug bones from five graves. By that time Parvana had to go to the bathroom. The only place to go in private was just inside a doorway. Parvana went inside, afraid she would be blown up by a land mine. She emerged safely, and the girls cashed in their bones. They received more money than Parvana usually made in three days. They continued through the afternoon. They agreed that when they were rich old ladies they would remember that day. At the end of the day, the girls also agreed not to tell their families what they’d been doing that day and not to give them all of the money they’d earned so they’d have...