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Chapter Fifteen

Author: Elena Parks
last update Last Updated: 2022-07-16 22:48:43
A week later, Arianna came up to the house from town to do groceries after she had sold their morning vegetables. She found three sacks of rice laying down by the side of the front door, leaning against the wall.

She stared at them, thinking she was imagining them.

She was holding in her hand 3 kilos of rice inside a bag she just bought from their earnings that morning, and she was just think-ing about when they would be able to again afford to buy a sack as she walked towards the house with her two pitiful bags of groceries.

What is going on? She couldn't think of anything that would bring three sacks of rice into their house!

She immediately looked for her mother. She didn't even call for her, thinking she would excite her for nothing just in case those sacks weren’t even theirs. She found her in the kitchen stacking up grocery items on their shelves that had never looked that full.

She was speechless and a statue until her mother turned towards her with a beaming face.

“Anak! What
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