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The little things you steal

We do not steal. We, the common people. It is the Politicians, the Clergy, the actual robbers that steal. For us, stealing is a foreign concept. We do not steal. We have our things stolen from us. If anything, we get. Without the owner's consent, or even knowledge. Sometimes, they might not even remember that they had something which they cannot remember anymore. Say a book... I have a library. A small growing library that is growing at a snail's pace. Still, it is my library. I used to have books. In stock. A few classic titles and, of course, my favorites that some might not even have heard of. And, titles that I only boasted of or had found them in my patient moments at the DAPP Library which was in the trade fair. Now, it is closed. I used to have Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner in my library. Now, it can only be traced in my memory. Somebody helped himself to it and, I can only pray, somebody also helped herself to it from him. It is as if, they stole