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In and out of the dark doorways , and down narrow alley-ways that branched off on either side , people swarmed in astonishing numbers - girls in full bloom , with crudely lipsticked mouths , and youths who chased the girls , and swollen waddling women who showed you what the girls would be like in ten years ' time , and old bent creatures shuffling along on splayed feet , and ragged barefooted children who played in the puddles and then scattered at angry yells from their mothers . gold

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