On one side was a small child, pulling a bundle filled with sand by a long string. On the other, a girl of around nine or ten was trying to work the spinning wheel. A boy of the same age walked unsteadily, one step at a time, as if for the first time in his life. Near a washbasin full of water was a child trying to grab the toy duck floating in it but failing because the nurse kept pushing the duck away. The duck would return to the child on the ripples created as he moved his hands in the water, but the nurse again pushed it away. There were many tricycles all around on which children were attempting to pedal furiously.

The room looked as if it was part of a nursery school. In reality, though, it was the section of a hospital meant for exercising the weak parts of the body, the physiothe

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