After such treatment it would think twice before coming again, unless it was one of the stubborn ones who… — Chinua Achebe
After such treatment it would think twice before coming again, unless it was one of the stubborn ones who returned, carrying the stamp of their mutilation--a missing finger or perhaps a dark line where the medicine man's razor had cut them.
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