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Chapter Sixteen
Slowly I entered through the open door of the house. And I am more surprised to find out it is the wake of a person, that is why there are people outside the house. I see a coffin in one side of the wall of the living room. And there are white flowers to both the right and left side of the coffin.
A little girl, maybe three or four year old, plays with her orange ball beside the coffin. She wears a white knee length dress without sleeves. She has a shoulder length light brown hair and fair skin. I watched her open a pack of M&M’s chocolate. She takes out a blue small rounded chocolate and puts it in her small pinkish mouth. As she chews she takes another one, red this time and tries to reach the coffin. ‘Wake up,’ she said. ‘Mama is crying again.’
The little girl stood up and climbed to a white mono-block chair, which made her possible to reach the coffin.
I watched how she repeatedly strike the top glass of the coffinRelated chapters
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