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Discrimination
The old man, now perched on a vintage armchair had an old book in his arms. " So, you want to know of your past don't you. It was a terrible one. I pity you my son, for at birth you were abandoned by your own parents. Then abandoned by society, no one wanted to be friends with you because of your horrible deformity," he spoke slowly, the light from the burning logs in the fireplace flickering in his eyes.
"Yes. I want to know. Desperately. I want to track down my parents. Why have they abandoned me? Because of my looks? Or because they had some financial difficulty that they could not speak of," Arnold spoke. Arnold knew the old man in charge of the orphanage had to know. Why else would the orphanage have his personal particulars, his birth certificate. Since young, he had never seen someone who had the same difficulty in life as he had.
His face was horribly deformed. His lower jaw was swollen and his mouth's upper lip was also swollen. His cheeks were so near his nose it seemed as if his cheeks were sewed to his nose, a forehead that bulged it was as if it could serve as a hat for him.
Shunned by everybody, even passers-by who walked by the orphanage stopped and stared at him, while he stood at the fence, wondering what lied beyond that old, horrid fence that kept him in, that made him feel like he was some kind of monster. Even kept in by that gate that supposedly kept him safe, he was still attacked by children with their insults. Everyone was so curious about him but was afraid to be even near him. Bit by bit, he built an impervious invisible brick wall between him and the rest of society. The only one who managed to also carve a hole in the wall n crawl through to him occasionally was the old man. As he got older, the people around him disappeared, adopted by the kind families, who sadly enough were not able to be kind enough to adopt him. He did not even know what his surname was.
" Arnold, I remember that day. It was...
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