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Who stole Bruce Lee's shirt?

Children are about the only humans in the modern civilization whose feet are firmly planted on the terra firma. Despite the best efforts of their grown up parents to confuse them with explanations that only create abstractions, they just stick to their guns. “Simple questions demanding simple answers” – that is all they care about. While the parents try to answer those simple questions with an eye on the future of their kid (“I think he is very smart to be able to ask such questions. May be time is just about right to give him a hint of Newton’s first law!”), the children probably get all the more worried at the inability of their parents to keep things simple. Simple children, Complex parents. It is that simple. May be not. It happened almost a year ago when we moved into the new apartment. Every small deviation from normal was a cause for concern at the new home. Electric switches not functioning, hairline cracks on the walls, creaking doors or leaking taps – everything raised the la