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Afternoon thoughts

As she sat on a wooden stool beside the granary that resembled a baobab tree, she smiled as memories of the past week filled her mind. "At least that week was not as hectic as others I have experienced!" she thought. Tasks she was supposed to have finished by end of the day she had completed within hours! She woke up quite early today, fed the cows with some fodder that had already been prepared by Tom the previous night, tied the goats to feed on the 'fertile' nettle behind the main house, fetched wood and swept both the main house and the kitchen that stood next to the granary. Her plan was to fetch water at River Kuja later in the evening with her girlfriends when it had settled. She had over time realized that during the day, people were either bathing at the river banks, washing clothes/utensils, watering the tobacco planted not so far from the bank, or letting the cattle take water right at the bank which somehow contaminated the water. She had not seen Tom sinc