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While moving house 10 years ago, my late mother came across two shiny marbles in my room. She was about to discard them, thinking it silly for a grown-up man like me to keep childhood possessions. I remember telling her not to throw them away for there was a story behind those two marbles.
Why, if he had been scrubbed clean, hair plastered, in St John’s school uniform, he could easily have passed for me at that age, sitting in the back seat of a Mercedes, being chauffeured to school. He looked so much like me at that age that I thought I had met my young alter ego. Instead, here he was pleading ‘paisa, paisa’ . I thought no more, dug into my pocket and handed him two rupees.
Not only did he remind me of myself, he reminded me of the widow, in the days when Jesus walked on earth, who, poor as she was, gave of all that she had — two coins. Jesus praised her for her sincerity in giving and condemned the Pharisees for giving a small fraction of their plenty and making a great show of it, hoping to impress people.
“Fine with you, chicken, what you are offering is a token. What I am offering is a sacrifice,” replied the pig.
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