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प्रश्न
How did the grandmother spend the last few hours of her life?
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उत्तर
She suspended her prayer for a while. She called the women from the neighborhood, sang, and played the drum along with them. The next morning she had a fever. She told the family that she was about to die! She died in bed telling her beads and lisping her last prayer.
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