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Yaqoob depressingly expresses how people often flounce away from others with disabilities, pointing out to how this will be his case anytime soon despite him previously being one of these people. He also said that the disease makes ones' brain like a vegetable, in which he would rather die than have
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that it is a series of literary pieces moving the readers between the aspects of politics, literature, economics, social and philosophical reflections, along with daring and sometimes hidden proposal of certain thoughts.
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