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'Prison Break' and my escape from Manus Island

Lives Less Ordinary

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The Hard Decision to Leave Burma

JVET had nowhere safe to go back to but at the same time his degree course in Yankong was ending and his travel pass was about to run out. If I were found that I have expired the 45 days limit I will be forcefully sent back to the fire, he says. They ended up having to leave home as well and hid out in the jungle so JVET fled south to Indonesia. It was a very hard decision I think to leave everything you knowEverything you've ever heard of everything you have ever your entire existing world to leave behind.

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