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A Letter to the President

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My name is Iqbal

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I'm now aged 25

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My father is a peasant

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He worked on land which belongs to the head of our village

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My mother stays at home

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I have 8 brothers

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After I graduated from junior high school, I dropped out

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Because I have to help my mother and father with work on the farm

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to be able to support my 8 other brothers

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I come from a small village

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(The lights went off again!)

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It needs more attention from the president

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Our village is so poor

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Even the electricity often goes out of service

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Presidential candidates, I can only see you from a TV in my neighbour's house

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And in an old newspaper which was used to wrap rice

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I really hope that someday, I can meet Mr. President

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So I can tell him about everything we are going though in our village

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This letter is one of the many letters that I have sent to the candidates

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Well actually I don't know about all of those other letters, whether they reached them or not

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Because I only gave them to my friends

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Maybe they lost them, or maybe they already reached Mr. President

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But I don't know, up until now I've never seen or met Mr. President in real life

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To the next elected president, this letter represents our voices

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We do hope that the next president-to-be will pay more attention to the voices of the farmers and peasants, of the fishermen

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And others who have the same fate as us

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I hope that the next president can come down and visit us, can feel what we've been feeling

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And can listen to our misery and problems

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Thank you

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Regards, Iqbal