1/4 “My parents tried to have children for seven years. From the moment I was born, my father and I were inseparable. I remember he would always come home after work and lie down on the couch. I would sit next to him and feel his pulse. He explained that people have vessels and that when you stop feeling their heartbeat, they are no longer alive. It was the first time I learned about death. I was almost seven when the war started in 1992. We ran away from our hometown and stayed with my grandparents near Srebrenica. Those years were tough. There was little food, and our family was poor. My father was in the military. He would often go to the frontline. Sometimes he would be away for weeks, but he would always come back with some food. One day he came home and he said: Sabina, I have a surprise for you. What do you think it is? I asked if it was chocolate. He said: ‘it’s even sweeter than chocolate,’ and he gave me a little Duplo man. I could have never imagined having a real toy. I would play with tiny pieces of wood, for which my grandmother would knit small sweaters. All the children in the village were jealous of my toy. I namedhimSabe, aftermyfather’snickname

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(4/4) "Years later, we found out, through a reconstruction based on stories from different people, that Sadif was seen carrying Enesa through the forest while she was already dead. People had told him to leave her body behind. Sadif had told them that he wouldn’t...

(3/4) "Years went by without any information about what happened to Enesa and Sadif. My mom had put the set of bed sheets in a plastic cover under her bed. Once in a while, she would take them out of the cover to wash them. Sometimes she would sew a flower on it....

(2/4) ''Days went by and we didn’t hear from Enesa and Sadif. Every day new refugees came in from Srebrenica. My mother and I would go to the refugee camps and ask people if they had seen Enesa and Sadif. We would show them pictures but nobody recognized them. Every...