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As a journalist, it finally dawned on me last springjust why I was so highly motivated
to keep on the move in Europe digging out my writing assignments for the Times.
Somehow I was even able to churn out a few freelance articles. Being a journalist isn't
always glamorous or "pretty work", but it certainly comes with a lot of assumed
freedoms, or at least presumed ones. The right credentials open doors and keep them
open. And with the newest policies of harmonizing and sophistication, others would say
censorship and state,control, of the New World Media Services, very few challenged me.
Little did the N.W.M.S. know, as I covered more and more stories of anti-Israel, anti-Jew
fever in Europe from their "spin", I was a secret Jew. Had the officials found out, my
career would be over. The sad personal irony of doing my latest pieces on displaced
persons and persecuted people groups like the "fringe fundamental Christians" and the
more Orthodox Jews of Europe (especially France and Spain), became an ever pressing
weight on my own head. It was like a constant guilt for my own uninhibited movement.
I began to wonder gnawingly if! was really only running from something or someone! I
was plagued by the thought it was my ancestral roots.

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