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The Whole World Seemed to Change
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Gemma Arterton reads Vesna Maric's account of coming to Britain as a 16-year-old asylum seeker, after fleeing the conflict in Bosnia in 1992.
As school breaks up in the summer of 1992, the shelling begins in Mostar.
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Tue 20 Jan 200900:30
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