A Real-Life Account Of A Family That Adopted From Within (Read & Think)

Hello Friends For nine months, the family had waited excitedly for my sister's arrival. As the ninth month drew to an end, my mum couldn't wait for the labour pains to begin. Except it wasn't she who was going into labour. It was my aunt, her brother's wife, who was delivering. My parents were adopting from within the family. And, as fate would have it, my ‘sister' turned out to be a red-faced, kicking and screaming little boy.  Predictably,...

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I’m The Mom Who Taught Her Son The 3 Magical Words: “I Will Tell”

Hello Friends The constant whine in the Manral household these days is not “I am so bored” (which, I must admit, comes a close second in the whine-on-a-loop stakes, given that summer vacation is going on and the offspring can do only so much of playing-on-PS3, TV-watching and playing with his friends), but is, in fact, “XYZ’s mudder allows him...” If it’s not XYZ’s mother, it’s ABC’s mother. In fact, going by what The Brat says, all the mothers...

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Is divorce important?

Hello Friends Thanks to Miss Kimmies Floral for writing such a nice story. so i am sharing this one on my personal blog. When I got home that night my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes. Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking about divorce. I raised the topic calmly. She didn’t...

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What do you do if you have been raped?

Hello Friends For many women there comes that odd, jolting moment when you realize you have structured your life around avoiding being raped.  That moment sneaks up on you. Perhaps it’s because you caught yourself thinking twice about sitting down on the footpath. You were tired while waiting for the bus but you thought twice and continued standing, holding your heavy bag. And suddenly it occurred to you that you didn’t want to sit on the...

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