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This is pretty wild.

“..sometimes in little school the other kids said, hey how come youre brothers, you dont even look like each other, and marco freaked a bit, like hey, what you mean we dont look like each other, and we played dumb like we didnt know, even though we knew the whole time it was cos marco looks like abdi from under the bridge and i look like vladimir who can paint your house but only cash my friend, only cash”

It’s only the first page and I’m in love with it already

“Then there are those who don’t wait but who act, those who ask and shall then receive, those who do not know what waiting is, those who graduate from school, form couples, have children, and work endlessly and take what belongs to them.”

“Some people are like that. They wait, walk from one room to the next and wait, they cry and wait, sit in armchairs and wait, they wait to get married, they wait to become a parent, wait for their children to graduate and enter a profession, they wait for food to be ready, for the weekend to come, to get more money for their work.”

“It turns out he is himself an avid reader, and when I tell him I used to study literature in Pristina we end up discussing the books we have read and how he always dreamed of studying literature too and writing a book but ended up studying public administration instead.

“That’s life,” he surmises. “We rarely get to do what we really want.””