Broken smile

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His legs were floundering and with trembling hands he was managing it hard to sell cotton ear buds amidst the heavy traffic at red lights. An old man with withered clothes, fully wrinkled face & swollen eyes was hardly moving from one vehicle to another asking people to purchase the packet of ear buds. But people were perhaps more concerned about waiting for green signal & booing away their vehicles than paying any attention to old man’s pathos. The poor fellow drifted himself aside while people were hamming their lorries to an unknown destination. Sitting on sidewalks, he thought that perhaps the permanent wax in their ears couldn’t be removed with the packet of ear buds in his hands. The indomitable spirit of that broken smile was heard saying that generation of today prefer to have Ear pods than Ear buds. 

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