…they ask: “Why won’t you go back? When are you planning to go back, are you going to leave all behind?” They ask as if… as if it was our own fault for what had happened.
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Series Displaced persons
… we weren’t just shaking from the cold, we were shaking out of fear, because we didn’t know what could come from behind our backs, because the line was long…
I can never… I can’t even forgive myself, not to mention anyone else… It’s my fault, I’m thinking, why should that happen in my own homeland?
…it’s not like it used to be, like when we would go to some state office and if you can’t remember some word in Macedonian, the office clerk would throw you outside.