atikau was born into the arms of his father, who soon thereafter removed his son's legs and sent him to the streets as a beggar. by the age of 7, atikau had dragged himself across every curb in all of stylktia...

for years atikau was kicked and beaten as he tried to appease his father's greed. as a supreme untouchable he was never spoken to, yet atikau knew nothing but to smile...

as he grew older, atikau received less and less sympathy from his passersby and brought less and less back from the streets. outraged...his father grew more brutally violent and threatened to kill him...

fearing his life, atikau fled the city streets and sought asylum in a nearby leper colony. days later...his father happily unwrapped a small package...a newborn baby girl...

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