Lena believed that her mother could see things before they happened. Lena said that her mother “sees only bad things that affect our family. And she knows what causes them. But no she laments that she never did anything to stop them.” She was able to FORSHADOW the death of her husband because of a dead plant. Lena remembered this ability as she showed her mother her new home. She was afraid of what her mother would see.
Lena’s mother once told her that she would marry a bad husband if she did not finish her rice. Lena was afraid she would marry the neighbor boy, Arnold, so she finished all of her rice. A few days later, she decided it would be better to make him die, so she stopped eating all of her food. She forgot about the reason she stopped eating until a few years later when her father told her that Arnold had died. Lena gorged herself with ice cream that night. Lena and her husband, Harold, split everything. Lena’s mother did not think that this was the proper way to live. She tried to get Harold to realize it, but he did not understand. She then asked Lena why she lived like that and why she did not try to stop it.
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