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Our next story comes to us from a mother of two living in Virginia, but it begins far from there.

Let's take a listen.

I am Miriam Ibrahim. I was born on November 3rd in a refugee camp in the city of Gadharif from Sudan.

My mother flea war from Ethiopia when she is 10 years old with her sister.

They lost all of their families and they are the only survived

members of the family. And they settled in a refugee camp. When my mom was 16, she met with my father

and they got married. My father originally from Darfur.

The background of the story is that he killed a man from a different tribe.

The man is an honor killing because the man is in a relationship with my aunt,

my father's younger sister.

So my father find out about them they meet and know each other.

So he gets so angry and he went on and killed the man.

And when he came to this faraway area just to hide

because the other family are sick and revenge.

So that's why he met with my mom.

Later, after my youngest sister was born, the situation gets really very bad.

I remember lots of the fight where she been beaten, and when we came, my brother and I went in the middle to stop the fighting, we beaten also.

So he left and they got divorced.

We decided to move from the refugees camp.

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