Loss, defiance, and the fight for justice

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Loss, defiance, and the fight for justice: the stories of three women from Ukraine

Dr. Olesya Khromeychuk

I asked the receptionist at a Lviv hotel I was staying in if she had any Sellotape I could borrow. I had an important package to deliver, and it was crucial for it to be well wrapped. The woman handed her stationery set to me and I perched on the edge of a chair in the hotel lobby to get on with my task. The package I was wrapping could not be sent by ordinary mail. I had to deliver it personally because its destination was in the world of the dead.

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