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It all starts with a ‘hello’.

A simple hello. It can start a conversation for the largest. It also makes you approachable and kind in the eyes of the people who don’t know you.

A hello with a smile can make a person’s day who was initially having a bad day. A smile can touch an innocent child’s heart and make their sweet smile show up, the one with their teeth showing.

A smile can be wicked too. A sign of evil victory. A false one that hides sick plans and destroys you when you least except it. A fake one that people give you just before telling the sad truth.

But a smile with a hello is always uplifting, well most of the time.

For Dara, the hello he received in the morning was the most surprising one he had witnessed.

It came with a smile but Dara was so surprised to see it that he didn’t know how to respond.

He had stared at the person in front of him for a good minute and when he didn’t say anything the person cleared his throat.