... and her newborn baby by jumping into the family well in China. The woman's husband had left the country years before, so the villagers knew that the child was illegitimate. The night that the baby was born, the villagers raided and destroyed the family house, and the woman gave birth in a pigsty. The next morning the mother found her sister-in-law and the baby plugging up the well. The woman had brought such disgrace upon ... but funny; it is hard not to wince when her husband sees the two sisters and calls them "Grandmothers," as Moon Orchid sobs hysterically. In a sudden and powerful ...

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