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We need to be reminded how different our experience on this planet is from that of others who live here. How can we ever find common ground when our worlds are so very different? How does a child of this world grow up and assimilate into a world like mine? Even if they could do it. But I know people do -- with experiences just as bad or worse. It seems we shouldn't look so thoughtlessly at immigrants to claw their way illegally into our world. We have no idea what they went through to get here.
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Good journalistic account of life in a Bombay slum, non-fiction but written as fiction and comes across as very real. A painful reminder of how so many hundreds of millions grow up and live.
