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        "The lone runner"


        The lone runner carried his country's flag in the marathon. He 
        knew no one, and the crowds were ignorance of the proud symbol 
        of his native land. With tears, he ran kilometer after 
        kilometer, already missing his wife and children, his dear 
        father who, through considerable suffering, had sent him to this 
        foreign city, and his mother, who so recently had passed away. 
        He ran, saddened by memories of his native village, ran past 
        those ignorant spectators cheering him on, as if from a great 
        distance. He ran, hoping that his littlest girl would recover 
        from a wasting illness, still undiagnosed. And he ran, carrying 
        proudly the flag from his native land, the flag that had been 
        won with such difficulty from the oppressive and colonial 
        regimes which had dominated his people for most of the past 
        half-century. The lone runner ran, and ran, and the people 
        cheered, "and they knew not whereof they cheered."



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