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It was... "Before the war, I lived in Cilipi, near Dubrovnik. It was very nice and the oak trees smelled good." |
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It is... "When the first bombs fell, I was in my basement, and then we went to Dubrovnik. The Chetniks then burned my house by dropping bombs on it. They they burned everything that was in it. They burned the whole village. They stole my boat." |
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It will be... Matja does not accept this situation, and explains that there must be justice. "I would like a new house like a castle and I would like the people who destroyed it to be punished by making them rebuild a castle. I also want them to give me back the boat they stole. I want the little brook next to my house, the waterfalls and all the things I had in the house. I want my grandmother to come back alive from Bosnia." |
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