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Americans Lauren Geoghegan and her partner Jay Austin were killed in an ISIS-claimed attack on July 30 in Tajikstan. The couple set off on a year-long bike trip around the world in July 2017. Photograph courtesy of Facebook

Opinion

BY ROSIE DIMANNO

August 13, 2018

TORONTO—Dragging my suitcase across the border, through a narrow gap in the barbed-wire fence, stepping foot from Uzbekistan into Tajikistan. Neighbouring dictatorships that didn’t actually have any diplomatic relations or intercountry air travel and, at that time, allowed border traversing onl...

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