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Jan 2019
22m 59s

A Kiss Deferred | With Joanna Kulig

The New York Times
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Nikolina Kulidzan was twelve years old when she fell in love for the first time. Not long after, the Bosnian War changed her life forever. Her essay is read by Joanna Kulig ("Cold War").

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