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PRE FIRST CERTIFICATE B- Citizenship Today

Human rights at war

Tymostchuk, Tamara.

Everyone will be wondering how I managed to make my words famous. Everything began a cloudy day, when Mandela became president, that is to say, when the doors were opened to the freedom that gave me the opportunity to express all my ideas and share my experiences to the world. I wanted to shout it out just then. Then I decided to look for a publishing house to give my book to the world, it took long until one of them accepted it.

This book became so famous that one day someone called me telling me that Mandela wanted to meet me and speak about my success. He invited me to a dinner. I thought that it was only going to be about the book but we ended up speaking about many topics. I fell in love with him.

“One day, Lily, one day…”

Everything has changed since 1960. Today, in 1994, black people are celebrating their freedom, I am too.

I remember when I was a little girl and I had my first discussion with my friend, Caroline. Oh, that was a terrible day. In fact we did not really argue, we just