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My Unsung Hero

Sanaa Kerroumi's Story

My Unsung Hero

Hidden Brain Media

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Sanaa is on her train ride home when an angry man begins threatening her. Before he gets too close, a stranger intervenes.

Transcript

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I'm Shankar Vedantham and from Hidden Brain Media, this is my unsung hero,

0:10.0

stories where one person reached out to help another in a time of need.

0:15.0

Hi Shanker, my En sank hero is a Frenchman.

0:19.0

She had given me exactly what I needed in that time.

0:24.0

I was fortunate enough to survive with the help of this man, this doctor,

0:29.0

who went out of his way to help save my life. Today's story comes from Sena Karumi.

0:37.0

Some years ago, Sena was living in France working on a PhD.

0:42.0

One cold winter weekend, she and her friends France working on a PhD.

0:42.6

One cold winter weekend, she and her friends took a break and spent the day at Disneyland

0:47.6

Paris.

0:49.0

They stayed as long as they could until it was finally time to catch the last train home.

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She calls it the tram.

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One by one, all of Sena's friends got off at their stops

1:00.0

until she was the only one left.

1:02.0

And I noticed that the tram was... until she was the only one left.

1:02.6

And I noticed that the charl was super empty,

1:05.6

like there was just two people in there, two guys.

1:09.0

Both of them French and I wear the hijab,

1:12.4

so I really stand out and whenever I go I do stand out.

1:17.8

One of the men was in the front of the tram. The other sat a few rows behind Senna.

1:23.0

She didn't feel like either of them were paying her or her headscarf much attention

1:28.0

so she put on her headphones and looked out the window.

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