The short movie,which began as an undergraduate project at Flinders University in Adelaide, has become an advertisement for cultural harmony following a series of assaults on Indian students in Australia.

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But he never forgot that day and when he grew up after a short spell playing football at LSU he did become a hobo.

但随着他渐渐长大，他没有忘记那一天的事,他在路易斯安那州立大学打了一阵橄榄球，后来成了流浪汉。

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Something might be short at one point and become tall at another point, ugly at one point and become beautiful-- like the ugly duckling.

一个事物可能在某一时刻很矮,然后在另一时刻又会变高,某一时刻很丑,然后变得很美,就像丑小鸭一样

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