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WORD (on teaching an adult male to read) He trusted me to break the word, crack each segment open until the mystery expired. Not so this morning; he stared bewildered at the board then back at me: "I never t'ought dat word could be so small... F-i-x," he mused, "dis word so small." How could his daily toil of hammer, saw and nails; an old lady's reckoning of last month's window against the patching of her roof this week -- how could her life of sacrifice and his of labour, sweat and boiling sun be totalled up in this small word? from The Stone Gatherer, Peepal Tree, 2009
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