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Submitted to Contest #62
It was the dark of a wintry January night in the coastal village of Sulanguri. Maya returned from the kitchen in the back of the house to find Supti in labor, in the bedroom. She immediately sent word for the midwife and the expectant father Hari. The former arrived in half an hour from a hut in the next lane, the latter in one hour from a house in the next village where he had been teaching and fishing. It was well past midnight when a girl entered the world. Maya sent for the priest the next morning. The priest came, a short, plump man wit...
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