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(past, amidst, desolation, encounter, gold, swept, excuse, briefly, distant, glibly)
“Why do you do this?” I ask Saheb whom I every morning scrounging for gold in the ______ garbage dumps of my neighbourhood. Saheb left his home long ago. Set _______ the green fields of Dhaka, his home is not even a ______memory. There were many storms that ________ away their fields and homes, his mother tells him. That’s why they left, looking for _____in the big city where he now lives. “I have nothing else to do,” he mutters, looking away. “Go to school,” I say ______ realising immediately how hollow the advice must sound.if this is only an _______ to explain away a perpetual state of poverty I remember a story a man from Udipi once told me. As a young boy he would go to school ______ an old temple, where his father was a priest. He would stop _______ at the temple and pray for a pair of shoes. Thirty years later I visited his town and the temple, which was now drowned in an air of ______ In the backyard, where lived the new priest, there were red and white plastic chairs.

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Encounter, amidst, distant, swept, gold, glibly, excuse, past, briefly, desolation.

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