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I. Part one: Otto A. Chapter One 1. Before Sophie left Congo to go live in America, Congo was a beautiful and lively place to live. 2. When Sophie left Congo for America, chaos happened and Congo became monotonous. 3. Kinshasa has a great number of people, but doesn’t have a good economy and most people live in poverty 4. Sophie witnesses so much suffering, abuse that she knows how to shut it all out. 5. Sophie’s mom life mission is to help animals from bushmeat leaders, she cares so much for this cause that she was willing to get a divorce so she could stay in Congo. 6. Even though the bonobo apparently looked like it was having the time of its life, Sophie looked closer at the bonobo and saw that it was being tortured. 7. Sophie refuses to
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