FROM LONDON WITH PAINS
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Last published Sat, Jun 7, 2014
A young girl is reluctant to leave London, but has no other option than to follow her mother to Nigeria.
Just as she's beginning to feel comfortable in this strange country, she dies.
Why did she die?
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