"The U.S. is a country many Europeans look at through a critical lens — 'a place to visit, but not to live,' as my German doctor put it."
"I wasn’t sleeping. I was barely eating. I felt like a ghost moving through the world."
"Reading it made my blood run cold. I know what real death threats sound like."
"I have a sense memory of moving slowly, deliberately, aware not to draw suspicion or attention to myself in any way."
"No answers. No medication. No follow-up call from my primary care physician. Just more pain, more confusion."
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