His Mother Gave Him A String Of Beads. It Was About All He Owned When He Left Home, Maybe Forever.

A young boy is thrown out of his home by his step-father and forced to leave his country in fear of his life — alone. And that’s just the beginning.


Here’s the full comic of Ebrahim’s story. Reading it, it’s hard for me not to thinkabout all the children arriving at U.S. borders over the past year, fleeinginconceivable violence at home in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. How terrible can things be that 5- and 7-year-olds are leaving theirfamilies for the unknown? I learned more here and here.

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They evicted her after 40 years to claim her hand-painted murals. Her parting gift was perfect.