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Arunan Arulampalam leans over a counter holding a mug in both hands. Dayanand is across the counter from him.

Arunan Arulampalam talks to his son, Dayanand, 8, in the morning. Arulampalam won the Democratic mayoral primary in Hartford in September. Yehyun Kim / CT Mirror