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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, thank you for doing this thread. Like a PP, I also visited Bosnia after the war and found the country to be beautiful and the people warm and welcoming.

What were the education levels of your parents? I would expect that that impacted the kind and amount of books in your home, yes?

Did your friends have a similar experience with a lot of reading? Where are they now in life?

How did your parents cope emotionally with the situation and what did they convey to you about it? [/quote]

Neither one of my parents has a college degree but they are life long learners anyway.  My mother is an avid reader and they have always valued education.  I swapped books with neighbors.  We also had to leave our home very suddenly to move to a different part of town that was not under Serb control.  So I guess you would call that a displaced person, but it's essentially a refugee within your own country/city.  We only took one set of clothes and no books, of course.

My closest circle of friends are all college graduates. My best friend growing up was a Fullbright scholar and she came to the US to finish her master's degree.  She is now teaching economics back home. They are all doing well either at home or abroad.

My parents and grandparents went into survival mode. There was no time to feel sorry for ourselves.  My mom now tells me that they never wanted to show us how scared and worried they actually were.  What purpose would that have served?[/quote]

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