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Saving the World

Today, my brothers, Mohammed and Rubel, are going to foreign. Mohammed is going to Africa and he wears a very handsome uniform.

(Our mother has died.)

Rubel wears an orange jumpsuit.

On the river island where we live, the water has turned to salt. The fish have disappeared, and only the shrimps are left. Mohammed has a lucky forehead, so he is going to foreign, and Rubel, whose forehead is unlucky, is also going to foreign, because he wants to be like Mohammed, and not take money from Mohammed, and marry his girl Komola.

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