Claws Of Time

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calm resilience, drawing on her wea

to listen and learn." And listen I did, soaking up every

grew older, my role

operate the machinery, to plant crop rotati

but slowly, I began to find my own rh

nd-Mom turned to me and said, "You know, chil

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etime had equipped me for this moment. That m

edience to every instruction

tio, when my parents told me to stay back

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ences was the day I was so bea

ted by Uncle Enench

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couldn't dare to face my peers in

All that was In my mind was Acheme, my bosom

at myself down in my presence to ev

approached my work with a