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‫الشموع‬ (Arabic Edition)

by محسن فرجاني

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At forty, they are sent to the Home of the Useless, where the Old Ones live. The Old Ones do not work, for the State takes care of them. They sit in the sun in summer and they sit by the fire in winter.

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