Originally I had no idea why Okimba's parents had abandoned him. I just knew that it was important to the story that he be an orphan. So, originally, here, I put that his folks didn't want him because he was dying of AIDS. Heavy, I know. There was going to be his death scene, some mourning, and then the return back to the states after that. Then I realized that that would make it go on way too long to fit in 24 pages, and that the end of the world is just as good a motivation for abandoning your kid. I erased the other thing and wrote over it, and you can still see where I did so if you look carefully.
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