![]() ![]() ![]() Mumtaz buys Lakshmi from Uncle Husband and puts her in a small room.Once inside the border of India, Uncle Husband and Lakshmi make their way to Happiness House.Auntie Bimla takes Lakshmi to the border, where Uncle Husband takes over Lakshmi's transportation to India.Lakshmi departs her village with a few belongings, her memories, and Auntie Bimla.He barters with Auntie Bimla for a price for Lakshmi. Lakshmi's stepfather gambles away the money Ama gets from selling her earrings and decides that Lakshmi will go work as a maid in the city.The monsoon comes and destroys the rice paddy.Lakshmi gets her first menses and finds out what it means to be a woman. ![]() Lakshmi cultivates her cucumbers and rice paddy in her small village on a mountaintop in Nepal. ![]()
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