• Chapter 16

  • I resumed my work as a doctor.

  • Three years later, the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo was even worse than before.

  • The areas controlled by armed groups had expanded to an unprecedented scale.

  • There was a food crisis, cholera outbreaks, sexual violence, and an endless stream of kidnappings.

  • It felt as though this place had become a “land abandoned by God.”

  • Every day, witnessing the hellish reality around me, I couldn’t help but wonder whether, for Doctors Without Borders, their treatment was extending hope or merely prolonging suffering.

  • A few months later, Adam told me he had found five of the children from that group.

  • Among them were Ray and Mary.

  • They had successfully escaped that day.

  • They later got in touch with their relatives and were now living with family members in Kisangani.

  • This news was a breath of fresh air.

  • I rushed to meet them.

  • The moment the car arrived at the meeting point, Mary rushed out.

  • She threw herself into my arms, eyes brimming with tears.

  • “Zoey!! You finally came!”

  • She had grown much taller and had blossomed into a young woman.

  • Looking anxiously into the car, she asked,

  • “Where’s Doctor Joseph? Why didn’t he come with you?”

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  • hesitated, then said, “He’s too busy.”

  • her fingers. “…Has something

  • death are especially sensitive to vague

  • shook my

  • I’ll show you.”

  • found I didn’t have any pictures of

  • I had stored them

  • home.

  • and found

  • medical records under the

  • strikingly similar to Joseph.

  • saw the picture, and her

  • jumped for joy, then pulled her brother over, saying,

  • want to be a doctor

  • children chimed in,

  • want to too!”

  • to heal

  • and asked

  • do you want to do in the future?”

  • glanced at the camera hanging on

  • be

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  • taken

  • want the world to see the people who are suffering.”

  • can be seen, maybe someone will reach out to help…”

  • tears as I gathered them all into

  • Joseph were still here, he would be so happy, wouldn’t he?

  • camera to Ray and left

  • other

  • flushed

  • children, living in the depths of hardship, still hoped to

  • scars.

  • Joseph once

  • hope, there is a future.”

  • Months passed.

  • body

  • visited the forest countless

  • it was night, I had no

  • had no choice but to give

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