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Beah confesses to Esther that he feels he has nothing to live for, since his family is gone. She tells him to consider her his sister, which he agrees to so long as he adds the qualifier “temporary” to the title. When Esther laughs, it reminds Beah of a girl named Abigail, whom he had known briefly in secondary school. He wishes Abigail and Esther were the same person, so that they would have a shared past to connect them better.