You can see the shadow of its perfect conic shape projected on the valley below at the break of dawn.

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This means that the lucky recipients are informed of their good fortune by a phone call at the break of dawn or, sometimes, in the middle of the night.

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Six times a week, thousands of local boys and girls sometimes together, more often separately gather in scores of village mosques across the district at the break of dawn, sitting through 90 minutes of math and Afghanistan's national languages of Pashtu and Dari.

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