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Children sit cross-legged on the white stone steps and platform of a temple entrance at night, eating from leaf plates. A garland of marigolds and pink and yellow flowers hangs across the white arched doorway, and a dark plaque is set into the wall to the left. Inside the dark doorway, two small red lamps glow. A man in a light shirt sits at the left edge, and several boys in checked, blue and white shirts smile at the camera. Slippers lie on the steps at the lower left.

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