The Ruined Bride of Velvet Nights by Brick Moving Ant

Chapter 70

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  • 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

  • tightened her fingers. “…Has something

  • who have experienced death are especially

  • shook my

  • I’ll

  • phone, but found I didn’t have any pictures

  • them, I had stored them all away in my computer when I

  • home.

  • very end and found a picture

  • wearing a white coat, reading medical records under the warm glow of a

  • strikingly similar

  • and her face lit

  • then pulled her brother

  • want to be

  • other children

  • want to

  • want to heal people!”

  • and asked the boy who had

  • want

  • hanging on my chest, a

  • be a

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  • taken

  • want the world to see the people who

  • be seen, maybe someone will

  • gathered them all into my

  • would be

  • I gave my compact camera to Ray and left Joseph’s stethoscope and books with Mary

  • other children.

  • flushed

  • the depths of hardship, still hoped to lift up a bright future despite their

  • scars.

  • like Joseph once said,

  • there is hope, there is

  • Months passed.

  • Joseph’s body yielded no results.

  • forest

  • night, I had no idea

  • I had no choice but

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