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A story teller unravels the extraordinary stories of some ordinary people On our journey through life we meet so many peoplemany we forget but some leave memories that refuse to fade awayThis is a collection of true storiesof actual meetings and encounte that the author had with these people over the yea as a journalist The 11yearold flower seller with her unfulfilled dreams, the gay men forced into lives of heterosexual unhappiness,the heartwrenching stories of abandoned HIV positive children whom noone wants to adopt There are poignant stories of old women in old age homesAmong the exploited prostitutes there stands out Sandhya who proudly describes how being a sexworker has enabled her to educate and marry off her siblingsPoor homeless pavement dwelle live together amicably regardless of their religionOne old lady tells the author:"here everyone has only one casteEzhari jaati(the caste of the poor) Yet what shines through these stories isn't despair but hope and triumph of the human spirit against all odds