• Chapter 15

  • I returned to the Goma refugee camp and reunited with Joseph’s colleagues.

  • Now, Doctors Without Borders had returned. His former partner, Adam, had been promoted to coordinator for the entire Goma project.

  • The moment we saw each other, no words were spoken, but tears flowed uncontrollably.

  • After crying together for half an hour, I told him I had come back to search for Joseph.

  • He led me to the warehouse, where some of Joseph’s belongings were still there.

  • “We evacuated in a hurry, and many things were left unorganized,” Adam explained.

  • Inside a box, I found a few scattered items: a paper card, a packet of flower seeds, a set of keys, several medical books, a stethoscope…

  • These little things, so closely tied to him, transported me back to three years ago.

  • I could almost hear his voice, “You’re here!”

  • I remembered walking into his dorm one afternoon, seeing him sitting on a chair, reading a book,

  • casually twirling a pen.

  • Adam, too, seemed melancholy.

  • “These things should have been dealt with long ago, but I thought maybe one day you’d return to sort

  • them out for him, so I kept them.

  • “I never expected that day would come.”

  • I accepted the items solemnly.

  • “Adam, thank you.

  • “I’m the one who came too late.”

  • Later, I told him I still wanted to find out the whereabouts of the children from that time.

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  • he cautioned me not to get my

  • many years.

  • everything was settled, I returned to my

  • I received a message from

  • had come to

  • up on the

  • parents were furious.

  • searched everywhere

  • colleagues, he found out I had gone to the Democratic Republic

  • Congo.

  • believe it, causing a scene at the hospital and almost being taken away by the police.

  • unable to make

  • loved, then where did I stand

  • make things difficult for my colleagues,

  • soon as the call connected, my breath

  • he

  • room was dim, smoke

  • floor was littered

  • “Zoey??”

  • really you?”

  • stared at me in disbelief, rubbing his

  • You really

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  • burying his face in

  • just because of a few words from Sara?”

  • of

  • anger flared, and for a moment,

  • I saw the

  • can’t… play with your

  • can you make me worry so much??!”

  • I felt

  • “Worry about me?

  • with you using me to placate your parents, and I used you as a substitute to

  • shouted, cutting

  • with

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