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What if it had been you?

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I, like the person who posted this, saw this pop up in my news feed and felt the need to share it here. Translated from the original Norwegian post . What if it had been you? 08/21/2015 - 9:34 p.m. It's not often I call friends to ask if I can publish their Facebook status as a blog post, but when I saw this pop up in my newsfeed today, I realised immediately that this had to be shared with a wider audience. It is my good friend Oliver who has written this great text, which is simply a beautiful symphony of emotions and gratitude, compassion and love, sadness and contemplation. Political or not - this is fantastically written. "Look at this picture. The one just below the advertisement for cheap industrial meat and fish. Translation: Police use tear gas on refugees. Via vg.no.  Original article (in Norwegain)     It looks like a dad holding a son. Such a dad who could just as easily have been me, if I had not won first prize in the lott