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car and headed north as Rose waved at them good-bye, blinking away a wayward tear. It took her a long while after the dust had settled before she could bring herself back to reality. She stood there staring at the road, refusing to let go of the week’s sweet memory. She suddenly felt engulfed in an awful sense of loneliness like she used to feel back in London on the first nights of autumn. That was always the time when the decision to return to Africa would resurface, to go back to the warm, protective embrace of the farm, its people, and its animals. Now she knew that with Eddie leaving the tranquility and peace the farm had always been able to bestow upon her were gone for good.

Chapter 5
    They spent that entire morning driving with Amit behind the wheel and Eddie riding shotgun in complete silence. There was no need for Eddie to speak his mind. Amit knew perfectly well that Eddie could think of nothing else but Rose back at the farm. The night before they left, Amit suggested to Eddie that they delay their departure and stay at the farm a few more days.
    “A girl like Rose isn’t going to wait for you for six months until you’re done with all your tasks. You should stay a while and build the relationship before you ditch her.”
    “Let’s not make too much of it. We had a nice week together and that’s that,” Eddie replied quite crossly, upset at the invasion to territories he wasn’t used to talking about.
    “The fact that you’re this angry about it, bro, tells me it was more than just a fling.”
    “We’re already a week behind schedule, and we can’t afford any more delays,” Eddie replied, and Amit knew the discussion was over. Eddie, the guy whose life was made up entirely of goals and tasks, would not be sidetracked by the momentary weakness of having feelings for some girl.
    They kept driving in silence for a long while. Amit realized he had called Eddie bro and remembered how much Eddie hated that expression. During their army service once their friendship was strong enough, Eddie explained why it bothered him so much.
    “I had only one brother, my twin. He got cancer after we came back from our bar mitzvah safari trip to Kenya and died a few months after. So please, I’m asking you as my best friend to do me a favor and cut it out with the bro and brother stuff.”
    They were headed to the dangerous Ebola valley in northern Congo-Kinsasha, and Amit knew very well how determined his friend was to let nothing stop him from getting there. The Ebola valley and the river with the same name were located about a ninety-three miles northeast of the mighty Congo River. The Ebola River runs from the east to the southwest, emanating from the border of the Congo and The Central African Republic and flowing eventually into the Congo River, which runs farther west across the continent and into the Atlantic Ocean. The Ebola valley—remote and unexplored—was marked as the origin of the terrible epidemic that broke out every few years and killed 90 percent of people infected. That was where Eddie wanted to go in order to learn as much as he could about the disease.
    They still had a very long way to go before reaching the Kenyan border, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, and hopping on a flight to the Congo.
    “Tell me more about that Ebola of yours,” Amit said, hoping to shake Eddie out of his moody state. “You said you’d fill me in along the way, but who knows who might fall in love with you next and lead you astray again . . .”
    Eddie smiled and welcomed the change of subject.
    “Well, really the whole idea started when I was watching some sci-fi movie, and they had the Ebola as this demonic doomsday virus that the bad guys were planning to use as a weapon. I can’t even remember who the good guys were and who the villains were. In any case, what struck me was the fact that this weapon didn’t come from some sterile lab, but from this primordial place in the heart of the African jungle. I didn’t