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A MOMENT OF FEAR

The robbery happened at 9.00pm, just a few meters away from my apartment.

I was walking home from dinner at a local restaurant, sleepy from rich food.

From behind, a man on a motorcycle tore away my bag. Inside was a phone full of work contacts, credit cards, recently withdrawn money, house keys, my press card, and a trinket I’d kept from my grandfather’s funeral and carried in my bag

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