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Rico Lamoureux
Jan 23, 2024
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I slept in the same state as when I was awake, always in fear, knowing that at any moment terror could thunder down from the sky above. My dreams were full of running, hiding, praying. So when I heard the unmistakable speed of what sounded like an incoming jet I thought the barrel bomb was just another part of my nightmare, but when the earth screamed o…

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