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universal karmic justice would be served. It’s easier to be an atheist when you don’t already have worldly masters to fuck you over, I guess.

This woman was living an illusion, where she had thought her family needed her, and cared for her, like she needed them. How can a human being be so disposable, you might ask? It probably has something to do with one of the most efficient schemes of systematic discrimination against the poor to ever exist. The cycle starts in South Asia and extends to any country that’s rich off oil. This woman is another input.

I just wish I remembered her name.

Now she was worried about coming home to her family, and her children, with nothing but a plastic shopping bag stuffed with old clothes. “What kind of things will everybody think I was doing over there?” I told her that her family would understand if she explained her story to them, but once again I didn’t really believe myself.

“But I still have a visa, right? So I can go back if I want to.”

She gave me her passport and asked me to check. Her visa had a big red ‘CANCELED’ stamp, dated January 09, 2012.

Her family, who controlled both her passport and visa by

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