Kosovo wants to decide its future—but will history hold it back?

Bogujevci tells me she and Nora wore matching boots and she still has hers. “I learned with time that the memories are really important, and that I have to keep them, and I have to cherish them, and I have to save them,” she says. Without these happier recollections, there is only damage to survey. “I did not ask for the past they gave me,” she says of the Serbs. Casually glancing at her left arm and hand, she adds, “I have to live with it for the rest of my life. The past is not just the past.”