
“In the five hours that followed, I was questioned twice more. During the first round I told, amongst others, my life’s story, about my second novel’s plot, gave my publisher’s name, my bank’s name and my real estate agent’s name. Together we went through all the photos on my laptop and messages my phones had been receiving for the past months. They wrote down the names of everybody I had been in touch with. They brought me back. In the car, no words were said. It was no use. I was defeated. To the Canadian border they said: ‘We got another one. This one is from the Netherlands.'”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/niels-gerson-lohman/us-border-crossing_b_4098130.html
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