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Submitted to Contest #80
I was eight when the first bomb dropped. I’ve never been good at remembering details from that first attack. No matter how many shrinks or doctors I see, they all say the same thing; memory loss, most likely brought about by intense and sudden trauma. They’ve got that right at least. Almost everything I do know, I learned from survivors afterwards. It was February of 1982. Protests and strikes had been growing in Hama for years. Citizens had been murdered and the people were an...
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