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THE CALABASH KIDS

Every day from dawn to dusk, she would clean the house and yard, chop firewood, weed the garden and tend to her bananas and maize and millet, before cooking her evening meal and eating alone.

One night, she prayed, “My life is so hard and lonely, please send someone to help me!”

The next day, she found some strange seeds outside. Puzzled, she planted them in a patch of earth behind her hut and tended them carefully. Over the next few weeks,

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