It's like living on an island. Sometimes it's very beautiful, and sometimes you can feel very lonely. One of the things that i hadn't understood, but i understood better from reading your book, was quite how entangled morocco and france are in this post war moment. I wanted to people to remember that the emigration was not always from the south to the north, but a lot of people from the north came to our countries. And they wonder why there so many morican to day in europe. But remember why? Because you came to our country first. So i think it's interesting also, to speak about that, about all the movements between the mediterranean
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