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JOYFUL HEART

And because I'll be away for a little long, I said I must create a little lasting memory with Mama Joshua. The feeling of the moment was simply ineffable. I took her by surprise as usual. And then it was stories upon stories: 'Mama, you're looking fresh!' I joked. 'Is it not what you and your friend did to me?' She interjected, clapping her wrinkled hands on the wrapper over her thighs. 'And the house, Mama? It still looks so new? Hope you make use of it at all?' 'Why not? We live in it. You want that one to collapse on top of us?' She laughed, pointing at their loosely hanging old hut. 'I watch over it, so that those small 'devils' won't come chalk-drawing their empty heads on my wall. Children of these days! Ah!' 'Don't worry, Mama. They won't dirty it.' 'What? Ah! They will o! I've caught them many times. But it's me and them. I'm not going anywhere.' She said, and we bo