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When he was set free he had not a soul in the world to whom he might go to spend his old age. ‘Who will care to employ me?’ he said. ‘And what trade have I?
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin reflects on the struggles of released prisoners facing loneliness and uncertainty about their future.
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