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Not Without My Daughter
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Indeed, my spirits brightened when I took myself off Moody's medication and steeled my will to the perilous task ahead of me.†
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perilous = dangerous
She knew the risks posed by Moody's temper, and whatever was happening outweighed the peril.†

peril = danger
Mahtob and I could have been speeding off in the white Pakon to an unknown destination and an uncertain and perhaps perilous future.†

perilous = dangerous
She was only five years old, unable to assess the twin perils of arousing her father's anger and being separated from her mother.†

perils = dangers
He would rather expose us to the perils of war.†
To me it was a ghastly reminder of the perils of our lives in Tehran.†
But I realized that we should take whatever opportunity we could to build our strength for the challenges that lay ahead amid the dark uncertainty of the encroaching winter's night, and the perilous days and nights that might follow.†

perilous = dangerous
I knew now that whatever the perils of escape, we must face them.†

perils = dangers
We sped off into the deepening darkness of Friday evening, along a vague route that held unknown perils, pointing toward an uncertain destination.†

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