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Kouri pou lapli, tonbe nan larivyè

Run from the rain, fall in the river

— Haitian proverb —

folly, fate

Fleeing a small trouble straight into a bigger one.

Kouri pou lapli, tonbe nan larivyè — Run from the rain, fall in the river
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