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A City so Beautiful

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"This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again."   Alexander Mcall Smith  What do you do with such a beautiful city? Do you love it? Do you fall in love with it?  Or do you just let it break your heart, again and again, regardless of everything? Well, obviously you let it break your heart. More than once; twice or thrice, or more. Not because you love the city. No, not at all. Because beauty demands tribute. What better tribute to give, than a broken heart. Karachi is a city of lights. For me it is the city of lights. The city where I opened my eyes in dark and light, like a newborn in this world. I wasn't born here. But I didn't know anything of the world, until I moved here. It filled me with all the bitterness in the world. And then one day it took all that bitterness away. Like the ebb and flow of bitter, salty, sea water.  At first, everything felt rusted. The air smelle...