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She acted again saying:
"Who else is dearer to me than you?' You unnecessarily have doubts."
She did a trick. The first lot of two. or three loaves were overcooked, practically burnt.
"Oh, God! These are burnt."
Saying so, she threw them exactly on the raised cemented platform which was built by her on the burial of his lover.
Now I could not Control myself.. Rebuking her, I said:
"You wicked woman! Who is there sitting inside that structure so that you first offered food to him ?"
She did not reply, but she poured: hot ghee on my body. I was burnt a a great deal, and went out screming. It went straight to my mother. She rendered
