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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey
Poor Rita 
"We were a middle class family"
"My father purchased SOME pubs"
What about the Syrian Refugees
"I can relate" |
Yessss I do get the feeling that her family were well off enough to have gone wherever they wanted in the western world... they just happened to choose the UK and gained permanent status by (to be fair, genuinely) claiming asylum as they couldn't continue to live safely where they had come from. However... I don't think they were bundling their few belongings into a box and abandonning home on foot, to cross the sea on a raft.
So I guess she can relate to how it feels to have to leave your home for political reasons... but, not the actual physical struggle.
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