In the Afghan restaurant, a guy suddenly came sitting next to me and shoved his phone in my direction.

It had the Google Translate app opened and it read: “May I have a conversation with you through automatic dictionary?” The guy was about my age and was 2 years into his university degree when the war started. There was nothing left for him in Syria. ‘They’re all criminals. President Bashar Assad, ISIS, free syria army, the international justice courts, everyone’

He was going to try one more time to cross the canal tonight.

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