My First Ten Years Were Devoted to a Teddy Bear

I was 10 years old, and we were leaving Nigeria, headed to Thailand. My mom invited a woman and her daughter to come over. That’s what happened with State Department families. You leave a place; you pass things on.

But I didn’t expect my mother to take my teddy bear out of my arms and give it to the other girl.

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