She lay there, but she weighed about sixty-five pounds.

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So now she just lay there tethered to her pumps, drifting in and out of consciousness.

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She knew that she could not hold him by the shoulders to lay him back against his pillows because of his pain there, so she kept her arms around his ribs and leaned him all the way down as if she were embracing him.

NEWYORKER: The Visitor

As he lay there among basketball hoops and water coolers, one body among so many, she asked the questions on everyone's mind.

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As she lay helpless on the ground in India, being kicked and beaten by a man, Bhalla tells BBC, there was deafening silence from a group of young men standing nearby watching, silence from her neighbors who heard her screams but were reluctant to get involved.

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