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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.”
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