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Our mother did reappear, looking wan and smiling bravely, and we had to pretend that she was fine.

“We watched them install it one night. It’s not like they talk to us or ask us for permission,” he said, a wan smile on his face.

“Our ultimate dream was to eat our favorite food before we died. One neighbor, I remember, he was craving a French fry — just one,” Ayoub said, a wan smile on his face at the memory.

Place a serpentine sofa in the middle of a room and you’ll instantly transform it from wan white box to theater-worthy.

With “Wickedest,” a boisterous album highlight, she laments that “Everybody want to lie, they want to fight, they want to get me / Thеy wan’ kill me … When they really don’t know me.”