Interviews with affected parties

This section has a very specific purpose. A function, if you will. These reports should give you strength and courage.

Let me briefly explain why these reports are written from the I-perspective: If I were not myself affected, I would write these experiences in the third person. However, I listen to this person in a way that is completely different from those who are not affected. For this reason, these reports have been renamed “interviews with affected parties”.

Also, they are written from the I-perspective because “I” belong to them. A very successful writer once told me his secret, how to write touching stories. He told me the most important thing was that they should touch the writer himself.

The following stories, these life stories, touch me. And this I would like to share with you. Hopefully the reports will fulfill their function and give you courage and strength.