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Orleanna meets Nathan, whattaguy
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Nathan marries Orleanna, poor girl.
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Nathan goes to war, is injured, squad goes down, never to be the same.
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Orleanna first becomes a mother.
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Nathan makes the Demonstration Garden, touches poison wood, gets made a fool
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Ruth May's Sunday School classmates tell her she will be eaten by Congolese.
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Upon arrival in the Congo, Adah is in to books heavily, but as time goes on, she slowly phases out of it.
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Leah reveals her attitude toward her future.
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Leah shows how she is unfaltering in her support of her father's words and actions, and says how she essentially tries solely to please him.
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Ada, while on the way back from an outing, is allegedly stalked by a lion, and killed. This changes her overall attitude.
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Leah's feelings for her Father change, first sign of her soon to be anamosity towards him.
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Ruth May breaks her arm from falling out of a tree.
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Adah makes the connection with the Congolese over her disability and the disabilities of the Congolese.
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Ruth May and her father go to the doctor in Stanleyville to get her fixed up. Debate between Nathan and Doctor
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Leah attends Lumumba's inaugural speech, a first sign of her changing to be more geared to the Congolese way of things.
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Adah's spying on Axelroot causes her to have new thoughts toward American ways of doing things globally.
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Rachel is in midst of a tantrum of whining when Orleanna comes out and cuts her pretentiousness down.
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Ants moving affects Rachel, Adah, Leah, and Ruth May.
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Rachel is "promised" to Axelroot for marriage to get away from Tata Ndu.
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Reveal of the cause of Ruth May's sickness.
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Orleanna reaches the initial breaking point with the Congo.
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Patrice Lumumba sworn in as Prime Minister of the Congo.
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Patrice Lumumba says he is going to get aid from Communist Russia as a bluff to get America to intervene.
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Operations to kill Patrice Lumumba