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Scents
The Ugandan guards burn wood to stay warm now that it has started to get cold at night. They climb down from the guard towers and huddle around a burn barrel to warm their hands and feet. They burn wood, usually pallets, and it makes a clean, hot smoke that rises quickly. It’s the only fire around here that doesn’t smell of paper or trash, of melting plastic or rotting food. As it cools here the ever-present smell of dust and rot is cut down by the crispness of the air, and late at night it smells like a cabin in winter.
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