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- Zdravko Delic.

Are you crazy?

He died three years ago.

Where are you heading?

- Hi there.

To Sokolovici.

Come in, l can take you as far as

Gerusa, it's close to Sokolovici.

Thank you.

Where you were standing, there was

a bus crash a few months ago.

The bus had about fifty

basketball players, mostly girls.

They were coming home from Brcko.

One girl died and about

ten were injured

when the bus rolled over.

Emergency crews

came from nearby towns.

From Eastern Sarajevo,

Sokolac, Rogatica.

It could've been worse.

The villagers were the first

to come out when it happened.

All of us helped pull them out.

When the police arrived,

they determined that one had died.

The passengers were in total shock,

especially the trainers and coaches.

The driver also wasn't himself,

after he realized what he'd done.

He didn't adjust to the driving

conditions at the time.

I'll be making a left here.

Follow this road to Sokolovici.

- It's not far.

- Thank you.

- Good day.

- Good day.

- Are you Ms. Delic?

- l am.

- And who are you?

- I'm Miro.

- Miro who?

- Dado's friend.

Please have a seat.

l feel like I'm intruding,

were you about to leave?

l have time.

I'm waiting for a friend.

- l wouldn't want to bother you.

- You're not, please sit.

Has Dado passed trough here recently?

Dado hasn't been here in a while.

When did you last see him?

A long time ago.

Before the war.

He spent one night here.

He said he was heading for America.

l haven' seen him since.

That was eighteen years ago.

I've been looking for him.

I'd been told that he came to visit

a few weeks ago.

He hasn't.

I've asked around if anyone knows

where he might be.

But no one knows.

Here he is.

He looked the same

the last time l saw him.

When he visited before the war.

- How have you been?

- I'm good.

I'm here in the summer.

Close to nature, clean air.

But l spend

most of my time in Sarajevo.

When l think about the day

we arrived in Canada,

l was with my ex-wife then,

and we had a dog.

An immigration officer

approached us and said,

"The dog is not allowed

in the refugee centre."

Have you ever been

in a refugee centre?

I felt sorry for our dog. We came

with him all the way from Sarajevo.

And he wasn't allowed

in the refugee centre.

They called a few organizations.

The Humane Society,

you know the one for animals?

And they said,

"We will take him but,"

"it will cost $35 a day."

$35 a day!

l only had $150 when we arrived.

lf that even.

Then they called again and said,

'lf we wanted to, they could

put the dog to sleep for free."

l was confused, l didn't know

what they meant by sleep.

And then it dawned on me,

they wanted to kill him with a needle.

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