'D' of #AtoZChallenge Sherry and her sister, Freny were sitting in the old, dimly lit living room of Daisy’s Aunty house. Daisy Aunty was Sherry’s bua, her father’s sister. Daisy Aunty had died at the old age of seventy-eight. She had no kids and no husband either. He had died long ago when she was just twenty-six. Her dead husband had left her an old house with an unkempt garden. When Sherry and Freny were kids Daisy Aunty was forced to babysit them. Daisy Aunty never liked kids! And she never really liked Freny and Sherry. She always snapped and yelled at them for being too noisy and giggly. She always yelled out, ‘No!’ Not there!’ ‘No! Don’t touch that’ ‘Don’t talk too loudly!’ ‘Don’t talk too softly!’ ‘Don’t laugh!’ ‘Don’t giggle!’ ‘Don’t cry!’ ‘Hairane chokriyo! Badhu traas!’ The girls would wonder why was she so grumpy! It’s not that Daisy aunty had a loveless life. Though she didn’t marry again, she had a few boyfriends over the years, after her husband died. ...
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