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Butterflies

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by Ashok Srinivasan

Jul 10, 2023

Yashoda looked out between the louvered, wooden slats of the bathroom window of the outhouse behind the main building. It was a wonderful, overcast afternoon in mid-summer in Bengaluru. There was the mildest trace of apprehension in her eyes; this worry about her mother was becoming a habit with her. No matter how far she went or how well she hid herself, her mother had a way of finding her. Yashoda could never manage to cut the umbilical cord that tethered her to her mother. She was in

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