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“I just couldn’t leave. We’d been living with these people for four or five days, sleeping next to them, getting rice from them,” Marie told Denise Leith. “In a way it was a hard decision, because you had to think, I could die here. But equally I just didn’t feel I could live with myself if I left. It was morally wrong, the idea that we would walk out, say good-bye and all those people knew they were going to be killed. It was not a decision I could have made the other way.”
In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
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