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Article: A CHANCE TO START OVER IN KENYA ONCE A TROUBLEMAKER ON STATE STREET, ABUTO NOW WRITES THAT HE IS SOBER AND TRYING TO HELP HIS COMMUNITY.(Front)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- December 28, 2000
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In late January this year, a handwritten letter showed up at Tellurian UCAN, a local treatment center. It was dated Jan. 12 and addressed to the director, Melody Music-Twilla.
The letter was from Henry Abuto, in Kenya, thanking everyone for sending him home.
Abuto had not been so thankful two months earlier, when he was being held in a Walworth County jail by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. He was deported on Nov. 20, 1999, and returned to Kenya after 23 years in the United States, the last 18 as an alcoholic on the streets -- mostly State Street -- of Madison.
Few of his friends, or the workers who treated him, or the police who ...
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... ... And you thought Taste gave you a headache. Check out Abuto King Nyanjong, who on Wednesday will attempt to set an endurance record for bouncing a soccer ball off his noggin. The Kenya native held the cranial crown from 1982 until last September ...
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