She witnessed the shooting of her father and the killing of two older sisters before she was 6. Now, in desperation, her mother — Ophelia Kollie — sent me a message: "Send for your daughter; I can no longer feed her." I could picture her emaciated little body being carried out of the displaced people's camp like so many before her.
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