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A weary rickshaw driver, a middle-aged unshaven man wearing only a barrel and a semi-retired lawn care team leader were all brought together to be asked a simple question.

They did not answer in unison, though, their responses were eerily not dissimilar.

The person who asked the question took a note of their responses and wished them all well.

That an attribute of this whole inexistential description would be withheld comes as no surprise to the author.

If you were to have been the simple question, how would you have reacted to their collective responses?