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Wartime Luggage

Summary/Abstract: A literary miniature in which the author, a native of Bucha, describes experiencing migration, a longing for her home, and the burden of difficult wartime memories. “Not a day passes without my wartime luggage reminding me about itself. From behind the wardrobe it radiates anxiety as if contaminated by radioactivity, even hundreds of kilometres from the place from which it was carried across checkpoints, smoke, and ruins. Together with it I left my home like a soul abandons the body. Or a child leaves the mother’s womb. But between my suitcase and my home there stretches an invisible, uncut umbilical cord. I still hope that I shall return. And my suitcase reminds me of this every day.”

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