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bigdave41 t1_iw9fyqw wrote

Reply to comment by CinnamonBlue in ‘An amazing feeling’: asylum seeker stuck in hotel thanks Observer readers for sending books | Ali, a Kurd who fled Iran, may also be offered a university place after he told of the tedium of 500 days in limbo by AsslessBaboon

For one thing he appears to speak English pretty well, if you were fleeing an oppressive regime and you had to choose where to go, would you not choose somewhere where you spoke the language?

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