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sheshe2

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3. Her mother laid on top of her to protect her.

Reply to Beastly Boy (Original post)

Thu Apr 24, 2025, 12:22 AM

Apr 24

“The smell of gunpowder never left me. I remember my father telling us, ‘Each of you, take a leg, an arm, a piece of Mother’s apron, her braid,’ and that’s how we carried her to the forest to bury her. I had a fever and my dress was stuck to my wounds, but all I wanted was my mother.”

I am crying too.

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