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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  • said,

  • fingers. “…Has

  • experienced death are especially

  • shook my

  • fine. I’ll

  • but found I didn’t have any pictures of Joseph.

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

  • home.

  • scrolled to the very end and found a picture of

  • reading medical records under the warm glow

  • similar to

  • saw the picture, and her

  • then pulled her brother

  • want to be a

  • other children

  • to too!”

  • want to heal people!”

  • and asked the boy who had remained

  • about Ray? What do you want to

  • on

  • want to be a

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  • taken

  • see the

  • they can be seen, maybe someone will

  • back tears as I gathered them all into my

  • he would be so happy, wouldn’t

  • compact camera to Ray and left Joseph’s stethoscope and books

  • other

  • cheeks flushed

  • the depths of hardship, still hoped to lift up

  • scars.

  • Joseph

  • is hope, there is a future.”

  • Months passed.

  • for Joseph’s body yielded no results.

  • forest countless

  • was night, I had no idea

  • no choice

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