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He was sitting in front of his shop. If you can call that as a shop. A small stand which is covered with some cloth and converted into a goodu where his wares are displayed. I could not quite make out what is that he is selling. No customer is present. Nor is he tensed for this lack. He is in fact asleep on the steel chair kept in the front.
What sorrows and worries is he hiding behind that slumber? What burden he is shouldering so that he still has to work in hot sun in his age?
May be this will be story of all of us. 

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