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[quote=Anonymous]We knew a man who had grown up in Bosnia and came to this country after the conflict.  Young, cosmopolitan guy, handsome, personable, a photographer at home.  Could have been any of us.  He was married to a Muslim woman, and the family was attacked for that reason.

Their young baby was swung by his heels into a wall, crushing his head and killing him, right in front of them.  The wife was shot in the head, and as she lay in a pool of blood, our friend was beaten and left for dead.  He was rescued, in a coma for months, and then in recovery, and brought here.

He was healing very slowly and beginning to be some version of himself again when he learned that his wife had survived and was in a camp.  For various reasons, he could not get back to her, and after everything he had been through, this is what made him lose it.

My most disturbing memory is of seeing him walking down the street after he learned about his wife, broken, muttering and gesticulating.  So irretrievably altered.  We had moved away and were just back for a visit, and I still don't know what ultimately became of him, whether he has seen her again or has recovered emotionally from the shock.

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