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SLUM Every day in the last two months, I walk past this place such a dwelling doubted if people really exist there. It not like every other place, it different, bizarre and spiteful, uncomfortable but comfortable for them. It a slum, dirty, and neglected. A squalid place where hungry, gloomy, unhealthy, dark, and skeletal children adore since it the only place they know. They play, run, laugh, and enjoy with all these unpleasantness unnoticed but there was this kid muddy and dirty like every other kid in this place. She is mostly not seen even among other kids perhaps she is not comfortable being in this place, but then everyone living in this place seems uncomfortable to passersby. These kids run naked or sometimes in a worn-out cloth. They are trained by themselves with no parental care resulting in being disrespectful and arrogant to elders and others. She is special from looks but not different from the others. Always muddy and dirty, quiet with a face wrinkle, she must have stol...