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When a child reminds us we’re not strangers after all
We underestimate the social capital that is built when someone expresses simple, human concern, especially for our young.
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The innocence of a child instinctively brings people together and that impulse lies at the heart of the society we live in.
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Almost every month, I return to a flower shop in Bellilios Lane. It’s tucked beneath a row of shophouses opposite the Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple in Little India.
The shop sells garlands, incense and the kind of small offerings often used for prayers. My repeated purchase is simple – a fifty-cent stack of betel leaves, thought to ease my young daughter’s recurring respiratory troubles.
