His classroom sometimes shook with the sound of bombs and shelling, and his mother told me, "Every day, I would say to him every morning, 'Honey, please don't go to school.'" And when he insisted, she said, "I would hug him as if it were for the last time." But he said to his mother, "We're all afraid, but our determination to graduate is stronger than our fear."
А когда он настаивал, я обнимала его, словно вижу в последний раз. Но он сказал ей: Мы все напуганы, но наша решимость закончить школу сильнее нашего страха.