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We never wanted to be associated with them. It was drilled in us by our mothers and bigger siblings. Never to play with them. Never to eat with them.
As other kids would take turns on biting a single piece of sugarcane while in the playing fields, a single bite from this kind of a kid would imply end-of-the-game. Who would dare bite the same place where a person leaving with epilepsy had bitten? None of us.
Worst still, when they met their triggers, their brain activities would be disturbed, then seizures would begin often accompanied by foaming. In the aftermath, we would be warned not to come into contact with the foam at all.
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