Our village pit still smells of mustard oil and the red earth my father used to pack before every practice. I watched a city boy on YouTube call that soil "unsanitary" last night, and I laughed — here we boil the water from the well ourselves, ai, we know dirt. But we also know that when the old wrestler's son sold the plot for a supermarket, the new concrete floor never held the heat the same way. The pit didn't need a pad or a brand, just the rain and someone willing to mend the ropes.
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