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She gave the bread and the bowl of her son. She kissed the forehead of her

water to her son, and watched him with a son and bowed to the escapees as a sign

sigh of relief and happiness. In her mind, of thanking them. The group of escapees

it was not important whether she had immediately understood the mother and
anything to eat, the only thing that continued to flee to the dock with her

mattered was keeping her son alive. She son.
hugged him with a smile and patted his
The son cried once he had lost sight
head, singing his favourite lullaby to make
of his mother’s figure. Although he was
him feel safe. After a few weeks, a group
just a young kid, he knew that he would
of escapees were running away from the
never see his mother ever again and cried
soldiers. While they were fleeing, they
even heavily while trying to not make any
found a woman who was as thin as a
loud noises.
branch holding a young boy. The
The mother cried with a smile on
escapees wanted to bring the mother and
her face, as she heard the noises of the
son along with them, but it would be over
soldiers getting louder and louder. She
the limit of people who could board the
went back inside the hut, and sang her
boat at the dock to escape. The mother
son’s favourite lullaby one last time.
smiled at the escapees, and gave them

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