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Submitted to Contest #51
In the camel’s old age, he no longer spoke the language of resistance. The thinly woven rope wrapped itself around his leg, able to be broken by a single step. But the camel had been taught to tolerate hopelessness, and so the old man watched as the camel stood motionless, tethered down by much more than the thinly woven rope that wrapped itself around his leg. The old man had once been a little boy, just as the old camel had once been no taller than a kitchen table. Every year, the boy’s family took him to the circus as it made its round...
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