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would drag them around airports, hotels and restaurants making a show of them.
               The infants looked pathetic, like  freaks. The siblings would become “beggars,” and
               foreigners, feeling  sorry for them, would give them donations.  If the infants died,
               the family  members placed the body in a large water bottle, and the siblings would

               sit next to the bottle begging for rupees. This is how they made money. Often,
               periodically,  I would give them a few rupees because I felt sorry for them, and if
               my distributor, Mr. Gandhi, saw me, he would chew me out saying I was
               contributing to their existence.

               Mr. Avinash Gandhi, distributor for India, was the owner of Jayantil  J. Gandhi
               Corporation and Pyloff Packaging Pvt., Ltd. He was very wealthy by Indian
               standards. He had seven children in private schools, three automobiles, and a lot of

               hired help at his home - drivers, cooks and maids. I think I counted 15 servants
               during one visit for dinner.  He was also a very committed Hindu vegetarian.  When
               Mr. Gandhi came to our apartment in Hong Kong for dinner, he informed me very
               politely that our maid had to use pots and pans that had never had meat cooked in
               them. Sue rolled with the punches and was very accommodating. She told our maid
               not to worry about it. We would order his favorite dishes from a local Indian

               restaurant, and she could just reheat them later. The food was “secretly” delivered
               to our back door next to the kitchen where Mr. Gandhi would never know it. We
               had a great meal with hearty libation.

               In India, we had to wash all  our fruits and vegetables in a purple dye; we also had
               to avoid ice cubes and water. The water had harmful  bacteria because so much of
               the fertilizer  was from human waste. I made the mistake one time of not properly

               washing the fruit, and I had the tropical trots for a week. It really  got me; I was so
               sick – completely dehydrated – weak and immobile.  However, I continued to work,
               conducting all the meetings  and trainings.

               Because India was growing, Dow Corning built a finishing  materials  plant there,
               and we shipped basic compounds to it. There we emulsified,  diluted and created

               some proprietary blends and repacked them into smaller containers. Our business
               took off; it grew rapidly and massively, and, of course, helped Mr. Gandhi to
               become one of the super wealthy.  We did it again! We did it for all of them!

               After my four-year tenure in Hong Kong, Dow Corning asked me to relocate to
               India for another four years. The company would provide me a car, a driver, two or



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