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NameBarbara and Chaqir
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Country of OriginMorocco
Destination CountryItaly

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s-1 Chaqir: I am from Rabat, Morocco.
s-2 I was 11 years old when my parents decided to divorce.
s-3 At the divorce tribunal, the judge gave custody of myself and my big brother to my father, who would not allow my mother to see us anymore.
s-4 As a divorced woman of a military general, she had trouble finding a new job and decided to join my aunt that was working in Italy.
s-5 My brother, who was sixteen at the time, had a fight with my father.
s-6 He believed that it was all his fault our mother had not visited.
s-7 So, we decided to follow my mother in Italy, although we didnt really understand what we were doing or how to get there.
s-8 We were lucky enough to meet an Italian truck driver on the way, who noticed that my brother was wearing an original Naples soccer team jersey signed by Maradona, a present from our father.
s-9 We traded the jersey to get on his truck across the border.
s-10 He had his shirt and we were in Europe.
s-11 At first, my mother was veryupset about our decision to run away but eventually all that settled down.
s-12 Sometimes I cannot believe that I would have never got the chance to meet Barbara, my girlfriend, had I not left Morocco.
s-13 In many ways, she had a very similar experience to my own and this makes us closer.
s-14 My hope for the world is that different people with different experiences can move around and meet one another.
s-15 No matter where you come from, everyone should be allowed to be with the person they love if that is what they want.
s-16 Barbara: My parents decided to leave Albania because there was a citizens rebellion that broke out.
s-17 Life became very difficult to bear, so they fled and found the first ship to Italy.
s-18 It was about one year before I was born.
s-19 My family lived in an abandoned hostel, together with migrants of all kinds of nationalities, for the next fifteen years.
s-20 As a kid, I did not think that it was strange.
s-21 I did not feel uncomfortable or uneasy; it felt like a big family and I liked it.
s-22 But then when I went to school, I started to realize that my classmates had really different living conditions.
s-23 I began to feel shy, like there was something missing from my life.
s-24 When I started dating in high school, I noticed that guys wouldnt call me back when they knew I had Albanian origins, so I would tell them I was from Greece or was half Italian.
s-25 Things have gotten better with time.
s-26 People tolerate mixed couples now, while a few years ago it was not accepted at all.
s-27 One time, while I was having a drink with a friend, Chaqir approached me speaking in English.
s-28 We continued to chat in English but I had a feeling that he was from Italy!
s-29 He thought I was a foreigner, and when I told him I was actually born in Italy he apologized in Italian and we started laughing.
s-30 Soon after, we became friends and started dating.
s-31 Being different is not something bad.
s-32 It adds to the lives of people that you meet.

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