Modern.
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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
Im your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
During the bosnian war in the early 1990s, an estimated 100,000 people died and millions were displaced.
The conflict produced the worst atrocities in Europe since World War two.
But Nicolina Kulijan was twelve years old before war broke out and had no idea any of that was on the horizon.
Her essay is called a Kiss deferred by civil war and its read by Joanna Kulig, who stars in the new movie Cold War.
Many saw it coming.
Ethnically charged graffiti began appearing on the buildings around town.
The local newspapers published the locations of bomb shelters.
A classmate told me not to sleep in my bedroom because it faced military barracks.
I dismissed these warnings just as I ignored all other signs of coming doom in my twelve year old mine.
Our town of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina was too beautiful and the people too good for there to be a civil war.
Besides that, spring was promising to be the greatest time of my life.
I was happy in love for the first time.
I saw Marco at school and was attracted to his eyes and playful smile.
One afternoon, while walking home from a piano lesson, I saw him coming down the hill on his skateboard.