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Tuesday, November 25

The Christmas Story from Mary's Viewpoint (continued)


Today was cloudy and dark; a gloomy sort of day. Not even my
companions whom I regularly meet at the well were not in the mood
to linger and chat for long. I guess it is because there is a chill in the air.
The clouds are dark, and lowering. Quite likely by nightfall the early rains will have begun in earnest. It sure feels like a day for huddling in our mud brick homes as close as possible to the little fire in the brazier!

I wonder how my long-time friends will treat me once they can tell
that I am carrying a tinoki, little child. Will they give me the look that
so many reserve for aant’at, women, of ill repute? I shiver to think of it!