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A Life Tied to Joe

All that I knew was that I had to leave that hopeless chaotic place where my teenage life ended at five. It was with bitter disdain I left the place. And for those who were leaving the place with me were the people to be pitied and people who thought almost like me. In the expensive potholed and dreadful city of the democracy I had come for the promised best education. How many of us would ever think of getting into such a college named after a western holy man, and what was distinct was that I was the only one from the entire region. It gave me this sense of superiority that made me feel that I had better and bigger things to achieve in life. I actually wanted something big, or something which was placed close where others’ was placed.And when I thought about that my kind were out of the scene. Our men were always cliquish and all that they cared for was food and cheap drinks, and the women were had nothing ambitious; they appeared as though they had come out to advance their ...