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PSYCHIATRIST: You don't have to re-tell everything that you've told the IND, but only what you yourself think is important.
BORIS: What I think is important. But I'm an asylum seeker, I am a refugee. What's to be said then? I have been fighting. And my father is dead, and my brother is dead. I'm a traitor. That's the most important thing.
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BORIS: War is mostly about being frightened, every day. Each day it can be your last.
Even the stray cats they huddled together in a big group from fear. When do you ever see cats together in a group? They usually fight each other off. But now they were in a big pack, and they went from house to house, searching for food.
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BORIS: I was a student when the war started, at the faculty for Modern Languages. And at first nobody thought that there was going to be a war, because. Well it couldn't happen to us. But then when more and more foreign journalists came into town, everybody felt that something was going to happen. And it is funny though because as long as there are journalists around you don't think that they are going to bomb you, because who is going to bomb you when there are journalists around to see and the whole world can know about it? So I kept on going to lectures. Until one day that the university and the hospital and the city hall were all bombed, at the same time.
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PSYCHIATRIST: Your family, you all survived it, didn't you?
BORIS: Yes, we all survived that, my family survived that. But what does it matter?! After that my father died and then my brother died. My father, he was taken ill at the wrong moment. I should have gotten him medication but I couldn't because of the UN embargo. And I should have stopped my brother. He was killed in a fighting unit. Well, after that I fled, first to the encampment and later in the truck. I came here in a truck. I wasn't ill then. That came after I got here.
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PSYCHIATRIST: How long was there between the bombings and when you fled? Are there any episodes we haven't talked about yet?
BORIS: Why do you say that? They said the same thing at the IND. 'Are there still things that are important for the procedure that we haven't covered yet?'
You know, if I could just get enough of those pills, then. Well, it would all go much better automatically.