This morning while driving to work I was listening to morning news – 71 dead bodies of Syrian refuge were found from a refrigerated food delivery truck in Austria of which 59 were men, eight women and four children. Most likely they suffocated to death in the back of the truck. The children were aged between two and 10. – I have a 19 months old boy, so I immediately thought about him and my heart sank. I guess a person go through a lot of these type of shocks in his/her life, and the heart deteriorates a bit by every blow like this. At one point the heart can’t take it anymore, so it just stops beating…
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