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Kapangama had no other place to so, so he just lived on the streets. Slowly Kapangama traveled down the mountain to Karonga, a town by Lake Malawi. He found that living on the streets was even worse than living with his step-grandmother. Kapangama could not find food, and he had no place to sleep except on the ground. Although he thought it might be better to go back to his step-grandmother’s house, he knew he could not go back.

Kapangama’s life was so hard that he did not know why he had been born. He said to himself, “Even if there is hope inside me, the world is too big. The burden is too big. There is no reason for me to continue living in this world. It is better for me to die. I should be done with my life.”