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A shy Afghan boy shakes hands with a U.S. paratrooper on patrol along Highway 1 in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, April 20. 2012. Highway 1 is the country’s main thoroughfare between Kabul to the north and Kandahar to the south.

SHY SHAKE

A shy Afghan boy shakes hands with a U.S. paratrooper on patrol along Highway 1 in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, April 20. 2012. Highway 1 is the country’s main thoroughfare between Kabul to the north and Kandahar to the south.

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