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innocent. She did not know what wrong she had done. She was just
preparing a gift for him. She was heartbroken as he did not understand
her and said that god should not have made fathers.

“Here‟s a clean hanky, darling. Blow your nose. Go to sleep, pet; you‟ll
forget all about it in the morning. I tried to explain to Father but he was
too upset to listen tonight.”

Kezia’s Grandmother was trying to pacify her. She gave her a
handkerchief, to blow her nose in it and go to sleep. She added that by
morning Kezia would forget the beating. Kezia tried to justify herself. She
said that she was trying to explain to him the reason for tearing the
sheets of paper but he was not ready to listen to her. So again, we see
that the little child was so innocent, she did not realize that her father hit
her to teach her a lesson so that she did not touch anything that did not
belong to her.

But the child never forgot. Next time she saw him she quickly put both
hands behind her back and a red colour flew into her cheeks.

Kezia’s Grandmother told her to go to sleep and that by morning she
would forget the beating that her father gave her. But Kezia never forgot
the beating that she had got. Whenever she saw her father approaching,
she would keep her hands behind her back because she felt that maybe
he would hit her again and red colour flew into her cheeks. Whenever
she saw her father, she got scared and her cheeks got red in colour.

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