When a man falls on to the train tracks, three strangers jump down after him
ON A BRIGHT Friday afternoon in spring, Sumeja Tulic had every reason to relish walking the streets of New York, a city she’d moved to nine months earlier from London to attend journalism school. “When the weather is good, it’s very hard to find a reason to be melancholic or dissatisfied with the city,” she said.
Yet her time in New York coincided with a season of ceaseless ugliness in politics and acts of terrorism around the world. “One day you laugh, and then you’re angry,” said Tulic, a Bosnian Libyan.
As she walked towards the subway station, she thought, “‘Please, God, I want to see something nice,’” she said. “Enough of this craziness.”
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة May 2018 من Reader's Digest India.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة May 2018 من Reader's Digest India.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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