They are outcasts in society; they endure a lot of criticisms and at times are jailed due to what they do. These are prostitutes who sell their bodies in order to survive. The coldness, the police who are ever running after them, the beatings and insults they get from people are all enough to drive them off the streets but they don't. Many people abuse them in broad-day light but night time; they are the same people who walk the whole night looking for them.
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