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You should not answer this question at once. Nor should you jump to the conclusion that it is the body that grows, not the ring. For is it not true that this strange country of ours has the ability to transform mere stones into women? All kinds of miracles are possible here. Miracles which occur nowhere else. Perhaps, after all, we should take it that it is the ring which grew bigger. Surely, anything is possible with the grace of God?

It was seven in the evening. Kannamal was busy cooking. Rice was boiling on one stove and kuzhambu on another. Kannamal’s eyes were brimming over with tears. “It was a waste to have married my son to a good for nothing donkey,” scolded her mother-in-law. “Useless to have performed the wedding. Saniyan! Saniyan! Unlucky face! You know how to eat, alright! You don’t skip a single meal. After eating up everything at home, she has become as fat as a pig. If she goes, we can get another girl for my son”.

At this, the father-in-law chipped in, “Why are you inviting your destruction by scolding someone else’s daughter? Is it saying anything? It is just doing its own work quietly....

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