“In our country, even a foreigner can find support.” This treasurer gave me a spiteful smile and looked me in the eye for the first time: “So what did you come wandering in here for, leaving behind that magnificent country, since things were going so well for you there?” I was about to come back with a clever retort when Jacob, who until that moment had been standing calmly behind me, shoved me aside and shrieked at him: “How dare you ask why we left our country, you little scumbag?!” The other man took a step backward, frightened by Jacob’s tone, but he didn’t answer, and in any case he would
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