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been intimate with her, a man she didn't know at all. Kania felt comfortable in his tight embrace, feeling the warmth o

ings for so long. Thank you, my love, for carving your name clearly in my heart

he tourist. She woke up, sitting on the bed and looking at the messy sheets, with only the bedcover covering her. Re

He's a foreigner, and a tourist at that. His life outside is probably carefree, while I willi

tranger to try to forget her ex-boyfriend. However,

as a disease and he transmitted it

ing she needed to do. "I need

s night, changed into her hotel attire, and returned to her

been intimate with. "Where did that tourist go after bei

k-out and handed the key

ike to give you this," the reception

ng puzzled at the black box. "

me to give to you," the

ion for their intimate encounter. She opened the box an

?" Kania

ar to her. "Have I ever had a friend named Marcell, or have I ever

was startled when she saw a framed photo of her mo

Kania e

home. Her astonishment made her forget that she

my mother?" was the questio

aw her mother sitting on the por

ania cal

iately embraced Kania tightly. The older woman cried,

aughter. Please, don't le

ather had asked her, before he passed away, to take good care of her mother. Yet t

the promise I made to Dad," Ka

ther. Kania cried in her mother's a

" Kania said with

your situation," Seeing her daughte

me. In the evening, Kania was in her room

substantial. I need to find a way to repay it," Kania muttered, feeling very conf

all the debts she had with the ba

nacks in the refriger

other still awake and on the phone with so

ay to get her account number. Okay, I won't consi

, puzzled by her mother

?" Nurdia asked, pointing to the two

plied, "I was hungry and

ter's cute antics, patting

want to talk to you about s

lked over, taking a s

ne to bed yet?

ll from a distant rela

hat the person her mother had spoken to was a distant relat

ecause you're thinking about

food she was eating. Nurdia looked at her daug

that?" Kania asked, st

for how she knew about it. She held h