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Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary EducationHSC Science Class 11

How did the grandmother spend the last few hours of her life?

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How did the grandmother spend the last few hours of her life?

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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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Chapter 1.1 The Portrait of a Lady
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