Mother: (comes in carrying an adult on her back in a sling) "I can't do this anymore. We have to do something!"
Father: "This is all your family's fault. If they weren't bewitched, this child would be normal. Look at him. He can't walk, he can't talk."
Child: (drools water out of his mouth)
Mother: "This is not my family's fault. This is your fault because you are sleeping around with too many women!" (they begin arguing)
Father: (takes a punch at his wife, who ducks. Crowd roars with laughter) "Well, if it is not your family's fault, it is the neighbors. They have bewitched the child."
Community Elder: (appears on the scene and explains what disability is in very simple terms)
Father: (to wife) " I am sorry I was blaming your family. I owe them a chicken."
Community Elder: (calls all families with disabled children to the tent)
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