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The Shared Loaf and the Sudden Noise The city was sunk in a terrifying silence, the winter chill freezing the very air. On the grey sidewalk, a stream of people rushed past one another, every head buried low, pretending not to see the desolation and misery unfolding right before their eyes. Curled up against a crumbling brick wall was a girl of about eight years old. In tattered clothes that barely covered her skin and worn-out shoes that exposed her toes, she withdrew into a small ball to fight off the biting gusts of wind. Starving and exhausted, her eyes had grown dim, carrying no longer a single shred of hope for life.