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“Where you are privileged, you are disadvantaged multiple times more: you don't know how cold the world can get if you're locked up in a warm house all day.”

by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from Vicissitudes of Life, chapter 7

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Cold is not a thing comfort can teach. Someone who has never been short of anything has never found out what they would do about it either, and that gap is a real disadvantage even though it wears a better name. Innocent found out the world’s temperature when the money in his country stopped working and his family’s support went at the same time. Most of what he lost turned out to be things he could live without, and there is no cheap way to learn that.

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