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Aleppo is burning right before our eyes

Bomb damage in rebel-held east Aleppo PHOTO: COURTESY

Many of us love a good horror film. We like getting really afraid. Our hearts jump out of our chests and we squirm in our seats. We enjoy it because it is not real. We can escape at any time. At any point, we can say enough is enough. But imagine for a moment that your life was a real time horror movie.

That you were not watching a character on screen, but playing the actual part of a human being caught up in the most horrific circumstances.

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