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they are too empty and they are searching for something to fill up on.
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Among those whose perished were Adeleci's husband Robert
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and their grown daughter Natadi, Robert,
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herself the mother of four young sons,
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the two died within a month of each other
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unable to subsist on the pumpkin leaves and wild vegetables
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that had become the families only nourishment.
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It was strange the way Robert seemed to fade.
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Before the start of the hungry months
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it had been he who had kept the family going,
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leaving before dawn each day to sell firewood or tend someone's fields,
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but then work became impossibly scarce