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| | Ilidza & Ilijas: Suada Returns |
 | | Walking through the streets in Ilidza after the transition, I noticed a couple of very dapper men fixing a garage door, dressed alike in loden coats with blue sailor caps. |
 | | Fragments of life history emerged: it was a fairly well-to-do, middle-class family that had worked hard, accumulated many possessions, had to flee at the beginning of the war from the Serb-held suburbs to Sarajevo, and were now returning. |
 | | As we entered the warmth of the house, there was the ritual of taking off shoes, and the awkwardness of properly fitting everybody and us, the new arrivals, into the overstuffed living room furnished in a Baroque style, like a 19th-century hunting lodge complete with stuffed animals, beavers, ducks, and the obligatory deer antlers. |
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