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Iraq War: The beginning

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The Impossibility of Not Worrying

Lubna, her sister and their two aunts had moved in with an uncle and his family. For three weeks then, you did not leave the house? My cousin was missing. He went out a short while before this wall started and we've never heard from him. We spent those three weeks obsessing about his destiny. You didn't know if you were going to wake up the next morning. Every five minutes I go to the fridge and try to take out something in order to eat because that was the only way to diffuse the tension. The thing is that when it comes to Iraq, we cannot live without fresh bread. And on the 9th of April, live on television

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