Personal Narrative: Liberia

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I come from a country that's not talked about that's not mentioned only when something big happens like a disease or massacre, “News headline Ebola outbreak in Liberia that kills 15,000 plus civilians in weeks”. I'm from Liberia west Africa I was born on a Monday well that is what my name means I was born in a village that was raided by gorilla rebel fighters not the cool rebel fighters in Star Wars the ones that sent for peace and only fight for distraction and their own gains. My journey begins as an orphan, my first 3 years of life consisted of survival and solely survival and in Liberia 2 out of 3 children will die by the time they are 5 and I was more than halfway I didn't know that at the time but I was near death every day and I fought