Once I was talking to this guy and his only dream was to talk to his mother again. We had no means of communication then, and he died before he could speak to her or anyone else. Another time, one of the other guys called his girlfriend and said, “Sweetheart, I’m out of minutes on my phone. I’ll call you back on Amin’s phone.” After a while she called me asking about him, and I told her that he’d been killed. She cried and my friends said, “Why did you tell her that?” I said, “Because that’s what happened. It’s normal. He died.” This is when we lost our humanity. I’d open my phone and look at
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