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He stared me in the face for some time but his big brown eyes looked frightened. ‘What has happened, Ismail?’ - I asked. “I haven’t told you everything that you should know,” he confessed holding his hands behind. I was shocked at that moment. A few seconds later, he showed me a cap. It looked like it was a part of soldier’s uniform. I could not understand why he was showing it to me, so I asked to explain.
“When I was a child, my mother left me,” started Ismail.” I have never known my father, so I grew up in children’s care home. It was like a prison cell. Nobody would visit me”. His voice started trembling and his hands shaking. I saw how excited he was. I tried to comfort him saying that he had grown up as a really good person. “When I was eight, one soldier adopted me, he took me out of these walls. Later the foster father sends me to the boarding school where little boys were trained to become intrepid fighters and even sacrifice their lives for the homeland.”
“You felt trapped in this school, didn’t you? I guess, these boys would do anything to get away but there was no