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		ikeboy on March 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country >I left Iraq a few months after the 1991 Gulf War and went to graduate school in the United States, where I’ve been ever since. Love the ambiguity here.

z_open on March 20, 2018 [–]

There's no ambiguity though.

ikeboy on March 20, 2018 | [–]

On my first read I interpreted it as they'd been stuck in grad school for almost 3 decades, which seemed almost believable.

It's one of those context dependant sentences - if it had said since 2016, then that interpretation would be most likely correct.

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