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Re: Sarajevo: No new bullet holes

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From: Charles Packer
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:32
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In article <+pxx-1b@rpi.edu>, speights@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Arlen Speights) writes...
>I picked up a woman at the airport this week who had barely been able
>to leave Sarajevo, and who will never see her home, as it was, again.
>She left on a bus of foreigners, and had the opportunity to see her
>city for the first time in weeks (and for the last time in years).
>She didn't recognize it.




Tell us more, then. As it stands, the above doesn't make too
much sense as a narrative. And it invites musing on the multiple
meanings of "to pick up," not all of which are in line with the
emotional tone you were trying to establish.
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Subject: Re: Sarajevo: No new bullet holes
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