Lauren Booth – She Gave Me This Free

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The transcript describes a situation where a woman in a different culture attempted to grab a coat from a woman in Arabic while walking down the street. She wrote down her number and eventually found the woman with a coat in her cupboard. She later discovered that the woman had a coat in her cupboard and wrote down her number to make things worse.

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			It was January and I didn't know it
		
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			got cold in the Middle East.
		
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			So I didn't have a coat and I
		
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			remember walking down the street in Ramallah and
		
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			an old lady in a hijab looks at
		
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			me and she says something in Arabic and
		
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			then she grabs me by the arm and
		
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			I'm like, okay, is this a granny kidnapping?
		
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			Is this how it happened?
		
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			And she took me to her bedroom, opened
		
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			a wardrobe, took out a big overcoat, put
		
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			it on me and said, yalla.
		
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			And I'm like, poor what?
		
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			She wrote down her number and said, there
		
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			you go.
		
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			And I'm like, what?
		
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			I could just walk off with this coat.
		
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			She could not bear for a stranger to
		
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			be in her town and cold while she
		
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			had a coat in her cupboard.
		
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			Do you get what I'm saying?
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			And everywhere I went, there was such a
		
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			softness, such an ability to make the best
		
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			of things.
		
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			Children killed by the army, homes taken by
		
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			occupiers, just the daily neglect of their areas
		
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			and the oppression and they were like, salam,
		
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			peace, how are you?
		
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			Have some of our food.
		
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			You know, sahteen.
		
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			They had this hookah and I asked them,
		
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			why are you so generous?
		
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			And they said, it's that book.
		
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			It's the Quran.
		
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			Allah will make things okay.