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DR Congo's 'dangerous' superstition
Gracia likes watching television - mostly soaps and cartoons, but sometimes the news.
The young woman, tall and thin with braided hair coiled on her head, is doing well at school and wants to be a doctor.
In the two-and-a-half years since I last saw her, her life has been transformed.
Then, she was living with 30 people in one house, too poor to afford school fees.
She had been sent back to DR Congo by her father and step-mother, after living with them in Tottenham, north London, for several years.
She is thought to be among hundreds of African children living in the UK and sent back to DR Congo or Angola after being accused of witchcraft.
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Honore de Balzac
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That's all there is to it."
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