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Before Before: A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone Fiction_Gift_Guide But his father's thirst for2025 Foreword INDIES Finalist for Political and Social Sciences2026 Nautilus Silver Book Award in World Cultures' Transformational Growth & Development Sierra Leone is often sensationalized as a place of extreme violence and sufferingof blood diamonds, child soldiers, war amputations, and Ebola and now the highly addictive drug Kush. Before Before captures daily life in a different country, one Betsy Small first encountered as a Peace Corps worker