It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year …

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown. ✨ Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). Infidel, p.204, Simon and Schuster
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