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,

  • tightened her fingers. “…Has something happened to

  • have experienced death are especially sensitive to vague

  • my

  • fine. I’ll show you.”

  • but found I didn’t have any pictures of

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

  • home.

  • end and found a picture of Jackson.

  • was wearing a white coat, reading medical records under the warm glow of a desk lamp.

  • looked strikingly similar to Joseph.

  • the picture, and

  • for joy, then pulled

  • to be a doctor

  • other children

  • want to too!”

  • want to heal

  • and asked the boy who had remained

  • Ray? What do you want to do in the future?”

  • glanced at the camera hanging on my

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  • was taken aback.

  • world to see the people who are suffering.”

  • someone will

  • fought back tears as I gathered them

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

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

  • other

  • flushed with excitement.

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

  • scars.

  • like Joseph once said,

  • there is hope, there is a future.”

  • Months passed.

  • Joseph’s body yielded no results.

  • the forest countless

  • I had no

  • no choice but to give up.

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