Ebola victim came to Dallas to realize his U.S. dreams
The first time Thomas Eric Duncan left Liberia, he was lucky.
He escaped a civil war that killed tens of thousands in the 1990s. From the safety of a refugee camp, he got an education, met a woman and had a son.
Even better, the woman took the boy to the United States for a life that would have been impossible in a war zone: high school quarterback in Dallas, then college.
But Duncan couldn’t follow his new family. He tried for years to get a U.S. visa while the war ebbed and a plague came to West Africa.
The second time Duncan left Liberia — for Dallas last month — his luck was gone. He finally had his visa. He had plans to marry the mother of his son. And he had the Ebola virus.
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