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she asks.

That is a very long, and painful story, I say.

Let's sit down, Hannah says.
We have all the time we want.

I sit with Hannah in the gloom of night.

I was in my village.

Me and Ganwar were playing.
I was so happy then.

I had Mama, Father, Lual, and Ganwar with me.

Then they came.
The men with guns.

They came to take the women, and kill the men.

I was terrified.
I ran with Ganwar, we ran to the forest.

We hid.

That night we watched the village burn in silence.

We walked with the other boys to a place with many tents.
It was a hard journey.

Many of us died from hunger, and the tigers.

We made it to the camp and we knew all was safe.

Then we waited there for many moons, until Ganwar went to America.
I wished him good luck before he left.

Then, I waited more.

Many long hard nights, in the cold.
Then, I got picked to come to the great America too.

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