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May 08, 2008
WRITING PROMPT: Escape to Freedom
You are a six-year-old Pakistani boy sold into servitude by his family to labor 14 hours a day in a carpet factory. Your enslavement will help settle a $16 family debt. You spend the next six years chained to a rug loom, working 12-hour days for pennies. Then comes the day when you escape to freedom -- here's what happens:
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Posted by billz at May 8, 2008 05:25 PM


