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Death of a Child

A child was walking along the road, the road from his home to the school. He was walking to the school early in the morning, he has to walk six miles , to learn maths and science and arts and English and geometry and, and the life, a life he never had, in down pouring rains, or under the burning sun . He has to walk six miles and he was twelve years old, twelve years only. He has to walk in a road through a jungle with huge trees , with wild beasts and snakes , tigers and vipers and elephants , elephants who had lost their natural habitat for the development, The development of whom the boy did not know, Not the father of the child, nor the mother of the child. And the animals were hungry and angry and wild, the boy was also hungry, he had no breakfast, as nothing to eat in his home And he had piece of bread last night, with a piece of onion. He was walking and dreaming , dreaming about not a luxurious life, but about if he would have lunch today. Then , they met , the raging wild elephant, and the hungry child, a child who was dreaming about a lunch he had never before nor he will ever. Then the time stopped for a moment, The earth stop rotating, Then everything back to normal Except the grieving life of a poor hungry child.

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Date: 3/27/2025 8:42:00 AM
I greet you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.
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