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Jun 28, 2025
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now think about your mother hopefully
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she's alive and well imagine that your
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mother married the man she loved your
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father with nothing but honesty and pure
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love she didn't even own her own wedding
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dress that was borrowed in this
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emotional story you may find a
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reflection of your own life i hope you
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enjoy it if you're ready let's begin
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the wind howled through the stone houses
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tucked along the mountainside as the
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first light of morning spilled across
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the narrow village paths a young man who
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lived alone was locking his goats in
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their pen and adjusting the wool sweater
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on his back this mountain village was
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both his home and his fate in this quiet
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cold place where no one opened up to one
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another he had been standing on his own
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for years no mother's voice echoed in
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his home no father's shadow ever crossed
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his doorstep he had spent the first half
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of his life as an orphan and the second
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half in silence this morning was
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different from all the others he felt a
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tightness in his chest that he couldn't
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explain just as the goats were settling
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in the sound of a car echoed from the
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top of the village dust rose birds
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scattered the man arriving was someone
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who visited the village every summer he
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worked in construction despite his urban
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look clashing with the stone of the
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village he was someone everyone
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respected someone known since childhood
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the young man sitting on the wooden
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bench in the yard sipping tea recognized
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him instantly but couldn't make sense of
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why he had come the man stepped out of
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the car smiled unbuttoned his jacket and
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walked over to his old friend "if you've
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got tea I'm here to drink it," he said
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the young man pointed to his seat and
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gave him his own stool there's always
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tea he said they sat in silence for a
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while the wind rustled the branches in
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the distance goat bells echoed then the
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man who worked in construction got to
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the point i heard you want to get
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married he said the young man looked
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embarrassed he avoided eye contact bowed
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his head as he refreshed the tea i do
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but who would accept a life like this He
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said the man chuckled maybe someone
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would maybe someone far away i know a
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family in Azerbaijan they have a
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daughter she's moral honest the whole
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family is a few years ago they told me
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if there's a good man in Turkey we'll
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give him our daughter back then no one
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came to mind now you do he said the
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young man was startled me he asked you
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the man said you have no bad habits you
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work hard you're alone that's what they
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want but I should warn you they're not
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easy to convince especially once they
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hear about this mountain life you live."
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The young man looked away and smiled
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faintly caught somewhere between hope
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and fear "we'll go," the man said
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"you'll meet if it doesn't work you'll
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come back." "What have you got to lose?"
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That night the young man looked up at
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the sky the stars sparkled like whispers
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in the heart of an orphaned child hope
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felt closer than ever yet still out of
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reach a week later they set off toward
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Azerbaijon crossing borders they passed
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mountain after mountain signs changed
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languages blended but the silence
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remained the young man didn't speak much
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along the way everything was kept inside
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for the first time in his life the
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possibility of falling in love with a
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woman was real but he still didn't dare
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think about it when they arrived in
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Azerbaijan they were welcomed into a
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warm home there was a large family
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brothers sat on the couches ryan's
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father studied the young man out of the
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corner of his eye wondering why someone
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who had come all this way remained so
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quiet rayanne was in the corner of the
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room from beneath the edge of her
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headscarf she glanced at the young man
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and in that moment something happened in
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both their hearts silent powerful and
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deeply moving when Rahan looked into the
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young man's eyes she saw the weariness
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of a mountain but also its strength the
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young man saw in Rayanne's gaze the
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warmth he had been searching for all his
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life that evening during dinner the
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silence grew heavier rayan turned to her
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father "i want to go to Turkey with
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him," she said forks were put down the
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room went quiet her mother lowered her
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eyes to the floor her brothers didn't
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look up her father shook his head you
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were raised in the city Rayon you don't
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know what the mountains are like you
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don't know what it's like to wake up at
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4 in the morning and heard goats in the
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snow and ice the boy is good honest and
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decent but you won't survive there he
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said rayon stooped from the table there
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was determination in her eyes i will she
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said within a week preparations were
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made rayanne's truso was packed into
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chests she didn't even have a wedding
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dress the young man couldn't afford to
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buy one but when the mother of our
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stories narrator in Turkey heard of
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Rayanne and the young man's situation
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she opened her chest and pulled out the
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wedding dress she had stored away years
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ago it was the dress she had put away
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knowing her son would never get married
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i'll never have a daughter-in-law she
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had said i kept it so that someone else
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could see a beautiful day let Rayon wear
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it and so Rayon came to Turkey as a
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bride in a borrowed wedding dress that's
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how our story got its name the borrowed
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wedding dress the day they arrived in
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the village the air was foggy the
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mountains had hidden their peaks behind
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the clouds the rain had just stopped the
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soil was heavy and wet when the young
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man stepped out of the car he turned his
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eyes to the mountains his bride beside
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him lifted her head and looked around
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everything was unfamiliar to her stone
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houses muddy roads chimney smoke that
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smelled of firewood it was all foreign
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yet oddly peaceful when they opened the
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door to the house the scent of soil and
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wood rose from within the stove was
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burning the house had whitewashed walls
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a low ceiling and small windows as Rahen
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stepped over the threshold she removed
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her shoes and hesitated for a moment
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then she smiled bowed her head slightly
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and entered their first night passed
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with the sound of the crackling stove
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the young man was exhausted rayon was
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silent deep inside she carried the fear
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of waking up in a strange house but that
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night when she laid her head on the
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pillow she found a strange comfort in
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the scent of burning wood the next
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morning she woke up to the sound of a
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rooster her eyelids were heavy she was
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cold the young man had already woken up
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and taken the goats to the pen
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rayanne opened the window the fog still
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hadn't lifted the mountains were silent
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she slowly opened the stove's lid to
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learn how to feed the fire and stirred
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the embers then she stepped outside and
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watched her husband the young man was
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bent over giving the goats water his
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hands were marked with scars Rayan
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thought about how hard those hands must
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have worked the first days were tough
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water had to be drawn from a well
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laundry was done by boiling water in a
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cauldron the market was far away and the
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roads were muddy but Rayon didn't
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complain she learned something new every
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day how to milk goats how to make yogurt
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how to chop wood one evening while they
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were sitting quietly by the stove the
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young man looked at her "are you
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struggling?" he asked ryan shook her
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head "no but it will take time for me to
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adjust," she said the young man fell
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silent he stared at the stove then he
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reached into his pocket and pulled out a
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bracelet it was thin a simple gold band
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he placed it in Rayan's palm "i couldn't
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buy one before but now I could it's
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small but it's yours," he said ryan
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stroked the bracelet with her fingers
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her eyes filled with tears but she said
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nothing she smiled days turned into
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weeks weeks into months ryan's skin
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darkened under the sun her hair began to
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carry the scent of the mountains she
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started waking up before her husband her
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voice grew stronger when calling to the
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goats she now knew the paths by heart
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she had become a true villager when
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their first son was born the entire
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village gathered at the house rahan gave
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birth in pain the young man stood at the
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door praying when the sound of a crying
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baby echoed through the house his eyes
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filled with tears rayanne was exhausted
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but she smiled in that moment all the
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loneliness all the weariness seemed to
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vanish years passed a second son was
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born then a third ryan was no longer a
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stranger in the village she had become a
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mother her hands were calloused her eyes
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full of love she carried her sons on her
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back while hurting goats on snow-covered
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hills with her children on her back and
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the goats ahead she walked on every
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evening when the young man returned home
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Rayanne would be at the door her clothes
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covered in soil but her face glowing
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with light one day the young man said he
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was going fishing just like always he
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left early in the morning basket in hand
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fishing rod on his back ryan leaned
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against the window watching him go she
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had a small unease inside but she said
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nothing that day the weather was clear
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at first then turned misty the wind
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picked up rayon spent the day with the
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children she made yogurt started cheese
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brought the goats into the pen evening
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came but the young man hadn't returned
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rayan turned to the window looked at the
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door a heaviness settled in her chest
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she ran to the neighbor's house he left
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but didn't come back she said relatives
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gathered they went to the stream they
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searched the muddy waters in the
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moonlight hearts trembled that night the
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young man wasn't found by morning his
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basket was discovered in the creek then
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his body the water had taken him
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silently without saying goodbye to
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anyone rayan dropped to her knees she
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didn't scream she didn't cry she simply
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bowed her head and didn't move for a
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long time her sons would never see their
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father's face again ryan was no longer
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just a bride she was now a mother alone
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but she didn't give up she carried her
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sons on her back herded the goats milked
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them made cheese her children started
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school rayon took on three jobs a day in
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the morning she sold milk at noon she
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cleaned houses at night she sold cheese
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years later everyone knew Ryan as the
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shepherd woman but no one knew what
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mountains she had lived through or the
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love she had lost in the stream after
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the young man passed the house felt
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completely empty every time the door
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creaked open loneliness came in the
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sound of the stove now crackled with
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sorrow every morning Rayanne woke up
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early and left quietly before the
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children stirred taking the goats to the
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pen she had to raise her three sons
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alone no one ever said "Let me help
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you." In the first months everyone in
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the village looked at Rayanne with pity
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but soon those looks faded into silence
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no one wanted to stay too long near a
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widowed woman the women were cautious
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and the men kept their distance ryan
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however kept her head down and focused
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on her work all day she took the goats
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to the mountains and on her way back in
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the evening she carried food for her
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children she repaired the window patched
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the roof and installed the stove pipe
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with her own hands over time whispers
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started to spread through the village
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some said "She's so young to be widowed
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but she stands strong." Others said "A
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woman alone always has her eyes open."
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Rayon never responded her only concern
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was her children educating them giving
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them a future she visited the young
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man's grave every week she sat there for
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long hours she never spoke but when she
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looked at the soil her face showed not
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sorrow but determination
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one day her eldest son fell ill there
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was no doctor in the village the
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mountains were wrapped in night snow
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still Rayanne hoisted her child onto her
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back and walked for hours through the
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snow to the nearest health clinic her
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feet were frozen her hands numb with
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cold but she never let go of her son
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that night she fell asleep wrapped in a
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blanket at his bedside in the waiting
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room when the nurse arrived in the
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morning Rayanne was still standing years
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passed like this all three boys reached
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school age ryanne tended the goats in
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the morning returned home at noon to
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cook for her children then climbed the
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mountains again she was soaked in the
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rain burned in the heat but she never
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gave up one evening as she returned home
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her youngest son asked "Mom why do you
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work so hard?" Ryan stroked his head "to
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help you grow," she said "then why don't
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you grow up?" he asked rayan turned her
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eyes to the window she didn't answer
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because what echoed inside her couldn't
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be spoken "i don't need to grow up i
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need to stand tall." Ryan came to know
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better than anyone what it meant to
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raise children alone while others
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visited family during holidays she
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stayed home sewing the torn shoes of her
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sons while neighbors bought new clothes
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Rayon sold yogurt made from goats milk
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just to buy notebooks for her boys one
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night sitting by the stove she held the
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young man's old shirt in her hands it
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was too worn to repair the fabric had
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nearly fallen apart still she laid it
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across her knees and pressed it to her
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face she stayed like that for a while
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then she folded the shirt carefully and
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placed it in the old chest she didn't
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lock it because inside that shirt was
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the young man's scent the children kept
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growing her eldest son was now old
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enough to herd the goats one day when
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Rayon returned from the mountains she
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saw him taking care of the pen all on
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his own she stood silently by the door
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her eyes filled with tears but she said
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nothing because someone had started to
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share her burden Rayon began making more
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cheese as yogurt sales grew she had to
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go into the city the city roads were
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rough but she got used to that too with
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sacks over her shoulder she boarded the
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bus and opened a stall at the market her
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smiling face became known among the
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vendors they called her the village
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woman but they all respected her smile
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one day a woman approached her at the
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city market there's a taste in this
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cheese that reminds me of my mother's
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hands she said rayan lifted her head
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eyes Redden replied i miss my mother the
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woman was surprised she studied the
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lines on Rayan's face she saw the
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exhaustion in her eyes she never again
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found that same cheese anywhere else as
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the years passed Ryan's back began to
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bend but she was still the first to rise
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in the morning the last asleep at night
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her sons had grown into young men the
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house was no longer silent the absence
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of the young man had been replaced by
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the joy of their sons but at night when
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she sat alone by the stove Rayanne still
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waited for the sound of the young man's
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footsteps no one knew this only the
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shirt in the chest did autumn in the
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village had been colder than usual the
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goat herd had dwindled in number and the
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mountain paths no longer held Ryan's
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footprints as often her three sons had
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now become young men the eldest had
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gotten his driver's license the middle
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one had found a job and the youngest had
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just graduated from high school rayan
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had raised them with great care even
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though they never noticed she had prayed
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by the stove at night and gone to work
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hungry in the mornings she never favored
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one over the others she had fed them the
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same cheese covered them with the same
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thick blanket one day the eldest son
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came with hesitation in his eyes "mom
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should we sell the goats?" he asked ryan
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didn't answer at first she turned her
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head and looked at the animals grazing
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on the hillside goats she had named one
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by one given years of her life to they
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were her companions the ones she woke up
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with every morning and returned home
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with every evening "what will we do
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after that?" she asked quietly "let's
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move to the city we'll build a better
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life," her son said ryanne remained
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silent "that silence was consent or
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perhaps it only looked like it maybe it
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was a quiet sacrifice to open a path for
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her sons the following week the goats
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were sold ryan entered the empty pen one
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last time the walls echoed she leaned
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against them and took a deep breath no
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tears fell but her heart wept a few
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weeks later Ryan and her three sons
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moved into a small apartment on the
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outskirts of Bersa they had brought the
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old stove with them some worn out chairs
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and the young man's chest the chest was
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placed in the farthest corner of the
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house and covered with a cloth but at
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night Rayan would lift the cloth and
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touch the shirt again no one noticed the
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city was a different world people were
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in a hurry neighbors distant rion didn't
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enjoy looking out the window nor did she
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enjoy going out her days were filled
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with silence her sons worked the house
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would become lively in the evenings but
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during the day the same loneliness would
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sit beside her she spent more and more
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hours squinting at the TV screen one day
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she realized she had put something in
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the wrong place in the kitchen she
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couldn't remember where the salt shaker
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belonged later while climbing the stairs
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she lost her balance her sons told her
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"You're just tired." Rayon believed them
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or maybe she wanted to but the tiredness
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didn't go away it grew little by little
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each day as winter approached one
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morning she stayed in the bathroom
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longer than usual her son knocked on the
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door and found her collapsed on the
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floor she had fainted they rushed her to
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the hospital after tests and scans the
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doctors came in with solemn faces
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there's a mass in the brain said one a
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tumor said the other Rayon said nothing
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she simply bowed her head her sons were
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devastated but Rayon stood tall her eyes
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which had never cried until that day
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remained dry once more she just looked
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at her sons and saw herself in their
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eyes treatment was needed but time was
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short the doctors were clear it's
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advanced they said ryan sat on the old
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chair at home and took the young man's
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shirt into her hands again this time she
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didn't press it to her face she laid it
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across her knees and looked at her sons
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"i don't ask anything of you," she said
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"just take care of each other." That
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night her sons cried quietly in their
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own rooms rahan sat by the window the
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city lights had blurred the sky she
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missed the stars from the village she
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missed the young man's grave she missed
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the sound of the goats but most of all
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she missed the piece she had carried
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inside for years the next morning while
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combing her hair she noticed something
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in the mirror more strands of gray that
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morning Ryan sat at the breakfast table
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smiling like her children she poured
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their tea one day she said "A woman is
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not of the place she lives but of the
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love she gives." Her sons didn't
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understand but they never forgot the
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deep peace on her face word had reached
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Azerbaijan when her brothers heard their
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sister was ill they decided to travel to
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Turkey after all those years they were
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coming to see Rayon one last time to
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hold her to say goodbye time was no
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longer on her side that night Rayon
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began to write something by the window
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she took a notebook from the chest
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picked up a pen and began to write the
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sentences were short but their meaning
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ran deep when Ryan woke up in her bed
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the room was dim the first light of the
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day filtered through the curtain gently
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touching her face lately she could
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barely speak ate very little and almost
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never slept at night her mind was clear
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but her body had betrayed her her
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youngest son had made soup that morning
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the older two had left for work the door
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to the room was slightly open from the
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kitchen the smell of tea drifted in not
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into her lungs but into her memories she
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thought of the young man sipping tea in
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the mornings the way he drank it it
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wasn't the glass that warmed in his
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hands it was hope her youngest son came
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in and sat beside her "i saw your father
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in my dream today," Rayan said her son
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stayed quiet "he was on top of a
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mountain the goats were around him again
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he walked toward me but I couldn't reach
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him." she said her son lowered his head
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rayon gently stroked his hair "you're
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like me," she said "but try to be more
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like your father he lived with his heart
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he was quiet but strong." Rayanne's
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condition was worsening by the day her
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sons had noticed but accepting it was
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not easy the eldest made hospital
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appointments the middle one kept the
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house in order and the youngest never
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left Ray's side her brothers and
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Azerbaijon were notified rayanne's
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condition was critical they set out on
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their journey but time was moving fast
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that night Rianne looked out the window
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at the sky the moon hung high the stars
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rested in a cool silence the only light
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in the room came from the lamp beside
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her bed beside her lay the young man's
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shirt its buttons were missing the
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collar worn but the scent still remained
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rayanne closed her eyes
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don't forgive me don't forget me just
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protect the children she whispered the
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next morning her sons woke beside her
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her eyes were closed her face was
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peaceful as if she had traveled to the
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mountains in her dream found the young
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man and embraced him they held her hand
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it was cold that morning Rayan said
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goodbye to life her sons were silent
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they couldn't scream a hollow had opened
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in their hearts their tears fell quietly
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not from their eyes but from their souls
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her brothers arrived at the house only
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by noon they entered through the door to
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the news of her passing they looked at
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their sister's face one last time they
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held her hands just like they used to
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when they were children you reminded me
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of the women of our home the eldest
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brother said preparations began for the
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funeral rain's last wish had been to
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return to the land where she was born
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but the journey ahead was one she could
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no longer see with her eyes as her body
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was prepared to be sent to Azerbaijon
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her sons gathered her belongings they
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found a notebook on the cover it said
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only "I walked every day." I never
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thought of turning back because what
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mattered wasn't the place to return to
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but the hearts to protect they didn't
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open the notebook they weren't ready yet
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inside the chest the young man's shirt
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still lay buttonless but clean ryan had
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placed a handkerchief beside it
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embroidered on it with a needle was one
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single word you were alone now you're
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not as the funeral plane took off her
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sons waited at the edge of the runway
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the youngest looked at the name tag
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attached to the suitcase rayon he looked
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up at the sky one last time his eyes
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were full but he didn't cry because
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their mother had asked for only one
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thing that they stand tall rayon said
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farewell without ever seeing the land
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where she was born but she carried it in
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her heart to the end her brothers laid
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her to rest in the family cemetery in
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Azerbaijan the only sentence on her
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gravestone told her story i was a basil
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that blossomed in foreign soil it had
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been a few weeks since Rayon was laid to
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rest at the burial ceremony in
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Azerbaijon not only tears but the full
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weight of the past had seeped into the
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earth her brothers felt the sorrow of
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burying her in their homeland while
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Rayanne's three sons returned to their
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home in Bersa the house was quiet for
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the first time they truly felt what it
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meant to be motherless rayan's voice
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seemed to have vanished from the walls
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the sheer curtain swayed gently in the
25:21
breeze but there was no one sitting
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behind it anymore there was no scent of
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food on the stove no goats gathering by
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the door in the morning for the suns the
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world had stopped one day the eldest son
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found an old envelope under their
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mother's pillow the handwriting was
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shaky but familiar to my sons it read
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the three of them sat down without
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saying a word they opened the envelope
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inside was a thin folded piece of paper
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still carrying their mother's scent they
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began to read "My dears my three
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saplings the light of my eyes as I write
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these lines you are still beside me but
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deep down I know my time is short there
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is no wealth I can leave you because we
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carved life together from the soil we
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planted patience together we harvested
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hope together i leave you not gold but
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the sweat of my brow i leave you not
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cities but mountains i leave you not
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riches but compassion i leave you not
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soft hands but calloused honorable ones
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my children perhaps I seemed harsh at
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times perhaps I stayed silent too often
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but know that my silence was always to
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spare you pain once the mountains echoed
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only to my voice calling the goats later
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they rang with your laughter on those
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mountains I became not just a woman but
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a mother don't search for me my children
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sometimes I am by the old stream
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sometimes I'm on the paths where goats
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once roamed sometimes I'm in the shadows
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that return home in the evening
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now I am as silent as a mountain but you
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will hear me when the wind blows and
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whenever you embrace one another I am
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there too oh my dears take care of each
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other and keep me alive in your prayers
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i am within you always
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after reading the letter none of them
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spoke they were silent because words
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were no longer enough with that final
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letter Rayanne had raised them once
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again though she was no longer with them
27:30
physically her presence had never been
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stronger the next morning the three
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brothers walked to the hill behind the
27:36
house they arrived at the clearing where
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Ryan had loved to watch her goats graze
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the eldest made a small pile of stones
27:45
he placed a headscarf gently over it the
27:48
middle brother planted a shepherd's
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staff beside the stones the youngest
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wrote her name on the ground Rahan they
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recited a prayer each of them quietly
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tried to hear their mother's voice the
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wind blew softly the grass swayed as if
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Ray and Skirt had brushed past in that
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moment they all understood their mother
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had not left she had only moved to a
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place unseen from that day on they
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continued with life but on every holiday
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every rainy day every starry night Tran
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spoke to them sometimes through the wind
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sometimes in the smoke of the stove
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sometimes in a falling leaf and they
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always answered "Mom we never forgot
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you."
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