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ELEPHANT IN THE CITY OF BLIND

lephant settled on the couch and took a sip of water. The doctor, already seated, focussed unseeing eyes in his direction and waited for him to start. Elephant had concluded that the doctor didn’t do pleasantries; not out of impoliteness, but out of an overzealous watchfulness of time. So, Elephant stopped asking how he was and launched right into the session. “I left my herd and came here because I was tired of everyone telling me what I could and could not do. No one can see here, so I can do what I want, right? Wrong. Your city is no different. People decide, very quickly, who they think you are, and just like that you are trapped

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