SO I have made it to Mumbai, and after flying FIRST class the whole way there i couldn't have needed it more. I arrived to my closet of a hotel room and laid there the first night, staring at the paint chipped ceiling, which held the most dangerously wobbly fan I have ever seen, and listened to the dogs barking and the incessant honking of the horns all night. Needless to say I didn't sleep at all. I ventured out of my hotel for just a minute before I went to bed but couldn't make it even around the block because the sidewalks were lined with sleeping people. The poverty here is unbelievable and was most evident on my taxi ride to the train station. WE pulled into the largest slum I had ever seen,
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