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Madonna adopted David Banda in 2006, but the child’s origin story is steeped in tragedy. According to The Guardian, the boy hails from Lipunga, a village of around 300 people in Western Malawi, Africa. His siblings — Garnet and Babel — both died before the age of three. The former succumbed to malaria when he was two years and eight months old. The latter had an “undetermined illness” that took his life when he was just 18 months
