 Arklöv wrote back, and the two became friends.After being released, Arklöv and Olsson met with the other members of the newly started NRA ("Nationalistiska Republikanska Armén", "the Nationalist Republican Army"), among them Andreas Axelsson and Mats Nilsson.His private life back in Sweden, after the war experiences, Arklöv described as a surreal nightmarish "twilight state" with feelings that his existence was "falling apart" and that he was living in a "world of ghosts, existing as a mere shadow, full of emptiness".