Abdul-Rahman al-Nashash, 11, holds onto the edge of a chair and pushes his left leg into a plastic prosthetic that doesn’t fit him anymore. The bone that was cut two years ago has kept growing inside, and it presses painfully against his skin. His doctors told him to stop wearing it. He wears it anyway, every morning, pulling the straps tight and rolling his pants down so no one sees the…

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