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How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and these too constitute a form of relationship. But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed,
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― The Tanners
― The Tanners
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Some mothers, who had once breastfed their children while simultaneously planting rice, were now busy running their fingers over the fluff of cotton to make batti, gazing into the distance from the veranda of the old-age home built on the same site.
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