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He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power.
Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016
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Inside, I screamed for help but the words knew better than to escape my lips.
— Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016
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It was as if hell itself had taken human form and come up from the abyss.
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