I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed up — Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed upon my return, I knew that a memory of my existence was alive somewhere in the world.

— Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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