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Monday, March 17, 2008

A warm hand smoothen the girl's hair.A tear-stained face stared back at her.It was mother."Is everything fine...Mum?",the girl stammered.For a moment,all her fears of darkness was gone and yet replaced was a strange fear that was uncurling in her stomach.A sense of foreboding ran through her as she watched mouth gaped,her mother fiercely at work.Staggering under the weight of two enormous luggages,her mother snapped at the wide-eyed child,"Won't you help me pack all the clothes!Such a lazy bum!"The girl began to fold all the clothes from the wardrobes furiously.When all the sudden activies ceased, thoughts shot past her mind.Could it be that Father and Mother no longer wanted her?She shuddered at the very thought of leaving home.All the frantic was lost by one assuring smile from her mother as they unknowingly marched out of the house for the last time.Holding hands by the moonlight,mother and child felt secured and happy in the empty street.

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