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the old woman amma made a small fire in the brick stove , mud pot was placed on it, , the leafy saag dish of mustard was cooking in its own juices, the boli was bubbling it dry, she broke the twigs and small branches gathered from the nearby dried hedges and bushes into small fragments throwing them into the fire to keep it burning
, then amma came to sit down by the fire on the mud plastered floor, stretching her swollen feet to make them warm, the warmth of the floor was comforting
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