I stowed away in a great steel boat, but the horror stowed away inside me. When I left my homeland I thought… — Chris Cleave
I stowed away in a great steel boat, but the horror stowed away inside me. When I left my homeland I thought I had escaped—but out on the open sea, I started to have nightmares. I was naïve to suppose I had left my country with nothing.
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