“It wasn’t even so much that I wanted to be a reporter. I’d always been interested in wars and insurgencies, particularly obscure countries and insurgencies. But I was also, at that point, really interested in survival. Why some people survive and other people don’t. Why two people growing up in a family, why one of them—why I survived and why my brother didn’t.”
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