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Posted on January 26, 2015January 26, 2015

I survived a terrorist attack when I was 13 years old.

On August 31, 1999, a handmade bomb exploded in a popular Moscow shopping mall. I was there, and watched rubble, dust, and screaming erupt around me. Read more about the event and my changing understanding of this experience in an essay over at Pacific Standard.

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