It's sometimes difficult to reconcile the disparate experiences faced by people around the world. Consider the experience, for example, of a two-year-old baby girl left alone on a bamboo mat in a government orphanage in Northern Thailand. Infected with the aids virus, her medical chart reads: 'Bploi wai dtaai.' Leave her to die.

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