A Different Lifetime: Stepping Back In Time In The Former Yugoslavia - Plot & Excerpts
I cooked dinner for the last time and prepared sandwiches for my anticipated long wait at the airport. Akron came to the apartment about midday; he wanted to take my passport along with the white residence card to the police station. He called to ask me to meet him outside with the documents, so I assumed I would be going along too; but when I exited the front doors of the apartment building I discovered that he was waiting to take my documents from me. Of course, I was not happy with this idea: I most certainly was not comfortable with allowing my passport out of my sight, today of all days. “You might have a problem leaving the country if you don’t get the card stamped with your date of leaving,” he exclaimed. “Are you sure there is time,” I replied. “Yes, I’ll be back in one hour,” he said. “I’m first going home to get my bike.” So there it was, what choice did I have? I climbed the stairs to the apartment. I went inside, I was packed and ready to leave; it was now just a question of waiting until it was time for what was now the only bus to depart – an afternoon departure going direct to Belgrade that Andora had discovered for me, not the early bus with a change in Novi Sad that Arkom had tried to get me on.
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