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GET A LIFE: Man Plans To Sue Parents For Giving Birth To Him

Hank Berrien

Even Shakespeare, who wrote in “King Lear” 500 years ago, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child,” would have been shocked by this one: a 27-year-old man in India is planning to sue his parents for giving birth to him without asking him first.

Raphael Samuel, of New Delhi, told ThePrint that he doesn’t owe his parents anything for having brought him into the world, and he wants his message to spread, asserting:

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