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Sandra Wagner-Wright
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Rama's Labyrinth: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
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Rama's First Child Widow
The bony fingers reaching for Rama's basket belonged to a child-widow named Thakubai. Rama says she wants to educate child widows, but Thakubai, with her tattered clothes and unwashed body, is the first widow she meets. Rama has few resources. How can she add another mouth to feed? How can she not?
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Rama's Labyrinth: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
“Why don’t you have a family?”
“I ran away.” The child’s shoulders slumped.
“Why?”
“They said I had a demon who swallowed my husband, but I didn’t,” Thakubai pleaded. “You must believe me.” The child dropped her red-rimmed eyes.
Rama sighed. Child widows in the abstract were easy to talk about. Thakubai was real. “You’d better come home with me. We’ll give you a bath and new clothes.”
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