Motorcycle Explorer December 2014 Issue 3 | Page 13

I
reflected then that I did
not know anything about this
guy at all. I had placed my
self in his hands without any
guarantee that it was true
what they said of him. Iraq is
a country objectively
dangerous, no matter what
Kurds say since Kurds, after
all, are stakeholders in
selling a security image. I felt
that I did not controlled the
situation, that I did not know
where I was being guided
into
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e turned a corner and
left all city light. The alley
was dark and deserted. I
stopped the bike in front of a
garage as he instructed. Jan
got out of the bike and
knocked lightly on the door.
Then I thought that as I enter
the bike in that garage, it will
actually be like if I had been
swallowed by earth.
old girl with huge green eyes
and a long queue.
S
he looked calm even
thought she was probably as
surprised as me. Then she
smiled and asked me "How
are you?". "I am very happy
to be here" I replied, telling
ow can I be sure of
her the exact truth. Once I
anything in a country where
saw those eyes so pure and
everything is unknown?
innocent in her young face I
What benchmarks did I have? felt I had come home, and
Who did I know over there?
nothing bad could wait for
Who in the world knew
me in the place where she
where I was? The metal door came from.
opened slowly. My pulse
quickened. From inside came
out an electric light. And a
girl. A seven or eight years
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