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loneliness
An intense friendship
My dad died twice
They listen
Now her revenge will be oh-so-sweet
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Pat Hutchinson lonelinessIn the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten millionall the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to