"On the morning the photo was taken, I was at my sister's house in Dobrinja, where I had moved after our mother died a few months earlier. I was on my way to work in Alipašino Polje. Of course, I went on foot, as everyone did—through the settlements, passing two snipers and a machine gun nest.
I wore one of my favorite dresses and a pair of sandals. I remember it was the first morning I went out with short hair, because there was no water, so I cut it myself. I put on lipstick, and I never ran, especially during the war."
— Meliha Varešanović
Just as she was passing a sandbag shelter, a shot rang out. But she kept walking. She later learned that the English photographer Tom Stoddart had been only a few meters away, under cover, and had taken her photograph.
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