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The Blue Biscuit Tin
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Every desi home has a blue biscuit tin. And it has never had biscuits in it.
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You open it hoping for butter cookies. Instead you find needles, thread and forty buttons.
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There is always a safety pin, a measuring tape and one button from a coat nobody owns anymore.
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Nobody knows when the biscuits were eaten. It happened before we were born.
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But that tin has fixed school uniforms, wedding clothes and every Eid outfit in the family.
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Send this to the cousin who still thinks there are biscuits inside.
