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"When the war began, a Serb girl and her family left Sarajevo on one of the flights evacuating people out of the city. She left her Muslim boyfriend behind. But she couldn't stand to be away from him, so she came back to Sarajevo to see him. At another bridge that then was on the frontline, the Serb soldiers inspected her bag of gifts that she'd brought for her boyfriend. It was all foodŃmostly meat and other things that were almost impossible to get in wartime Sarajevo. But what the soldiers didn't find was the machine gun she'd brought with her. She crossed into the city, found her boyfriend and stayed. She joined the Bosnian Army, and for about two months they were very happy. Tragically, they died together in a firefight near the Brotherhood and Unity Bridge, which has since been re-named after their story."

—Central European Review. Sarajevan Zijad Jusufovic is a licensed private tour guide of the war ruins of Bosnia-Hercegovina.

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