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Leon Aarts

Leon Aarts

Aug 17, 2026

14:38
What lessons did you learn in some of those experiences?
14:41
We're all just human beings, and that comes from my mother.
14:45
You know, I remember when we were growing up, so it's four of us, and we came home from school, and someone, a teacher, had been annoyed, and you said something about that person which maybe wasn't the kindest word.
14:56
And, uh, I don't come from a family where we, where swearing was common at all, but you just said something not so nice, and my mother always stopped us, and she wouldn't accept it.
15:06
And she said, "That's also a, a person, a human being." So for me, that's the common thread.
15:11
And on my first day in the refugee camp in Calais, I spoke about this.
15:16
It was like going back into the Middle Ages.

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22:44
Okay.

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