The only path for the people of Misrata was to take on the Gaddafi forces, a fact that both civilians and rebel fighters were reconciled to.

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One of the girls hoisted her skirt suddenly, pulled and ripped at her pink step-ins and tore them to a sizeable flag; then, screaming Ben! Ben! she waved it wildly.

In 1817 he connected himself definitively with Blackwood's Magazine, or Maga.