Greek Monologue

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“Henrique Vargas, Henrique Vargas!”
I could hear the supporters chanting the minister’s name. He was honoured the ‘Nobel peace prize’ after all the good deeds he had done. It brought pain and anger in me thinking about all those people, supporting this dirty corrupt who has affairs with foreign terrorist groups, without knowing the truth.

I was armoured up with my gun and I couldn’t think of anything else but the nightmares when I heard Julia and Isabelle crying for help. I was focused on my plan though. Abraham was setting up his devices to get eyes-on the main hall where the ceremony was under way. He was ready.

“Are you ready my friend”, asked Abraham.
“On the count of 3,2….1”, he whispered.
And boom!
As soon as I heard the explosives I
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A few years back, he attacked my village with a lot of other men. They shot everyone even my parents. I watched them die right in from of me, the whole village. When the army men came to rescue us, he got shot in the arm. The other members of his gang ran away leaving him there. He fought the army under cover but when he saw me hiding under a table behind a cloth, he stopped shooting. The army men thought that the attackers had left and moved further into the village to search for survivors. They found nobody but him with me. He pretended to be a survivor who had lost everyone but his daughter and the army men believed him. Since then, he threatened me not to tell anyone about this, warning that he will kill me also, just like he did to the others. I am scared to even talk to people and very quite all the time.”
I was astonished. A girl who has seen her parents and her whole village die right in front of her has been living her life without telling anyone or complaining about it. And here I am standing here in front of her after I’ve took revenge on the guy who killed my wife and my daughter because of my stupid decision to track down a terrorist off duty. I’d realised the meaning of life

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