| 1 | Soon my friend was down and out again. | |
| 2 | The writer was down and out, but he still went on with his writing. | |
| 3 | One woman we talked to had started in such penury that four of her children had died of starvation or disease. | |
| 4 | She and her children had last eaten a day earlier, when neighbors - themselves impossibly poor - shared some of their food. | |
| 5 | Most of the poorest villagers seem to get alms of some sort. But so do many richer ones. |
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