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...appa,  you don't know how much  upset I am with shanya,  she thinks  money is blank paper,  childish  she spends endlessly , sometimes diapers  urgently needed on other times  milk powder   and herself she remains  constantly sick,  moaning with  a variety of pains  from back pain to  specific  aches, my poor Farhan  works so hard to earn  and run the  family but who can  advise his wife,  I am his mother,  Ana his sister,  we destined to  burn slowly   nosha beghum  s sentimental outpour was bitter 

Tabanda beghum  faintly smiled  and remained silent but her smile  couldn't escape from nosha beghum s  keen   observation and sge flared up 

Appa,  you have honestly always been very lucky,  in the matters of husband and in laws  too,  in fact  in the case of daughter in law  also  , what else  could one ask for,  who else is as fortunate as you,  nosha beghum concluded  she herself was  unlucky to get a daughter in law like  shanya