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Chapter- 14(1)
"Do I look like my mother?" Rathi asked resting her chin on her elbows.
"Yes. You look like your mother and also your father," Masumi replied folding her worn-out saree.
Rathi nodded since she knew it. Shankari once blurted out that Rathi looks like a mixture of her mother and father.
Some thirteen years later after Aadhavan's birth, Masumi miraculously got pregnant with Rathi's mom. Her husband doesn't believe it's his child since he's too ill at that time, even Masumi too. She doesn't know how it happened. But Aadhiyan's great grandfather asked her to keep the child as he knows the reason behind it-- she recalled the memories and said it to Rathi.
"Revathi, that's your mother's name,"
"She's like a ray of sunshine, bright, beautiful, and intelligent woman; I raised her giving all my strength." Masumi with her shaky voice said putting her daughter's images at front of her eyes.
"But... her fate. She died," Masumi cried and Rat
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