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Short Story Pedro
Gutter whispers flew vehemently into everybody's ears along the interwoven lines of makeshift-houses made of scavenged house materials. Pedro is one of them --- the squatters. The stress and poverty in the city made him frailer, saggier than an old man and balded his crown even though he is in his mid-life. These are the consequences he didn't expect and they didn't expect. He's one of the people who tested their luck in the city. The desperation for a middle-class life was the drive that turned them into a moth allured by the superficial job opportunities and burned their wings with illegal drugs or their own illetiracy. And now they fell into the slum hell, where gossip is poetry and cops are
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