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Dr Fixit (371 - 380)

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 371 as husband. But Moonit had no choice. She'd given herself away when she did toss cheaply herself at the boy (the elders believed) but all that was being done was to see that relieved of any bondage of guilt was Ma Moonit as it was ingrained quite deep in most folks' minds, especially the males, that the mother had an inkling the gates were being crashed by the daughter. How would she not know these deeds would hurt her? 372 Pa Moonit wasn't around. Moonit lost her father a few years back as he coughed persistently till his demise. From things surfed from the net, I now believe what killed him was tuberculosis - scanty and dim was the knowledge of this deadly disease which left Moonit and her sisters deceased quite early in life. Now, I'd answer  that question that for long had lingered  373 in your mind - how came Ma Moonit was the co-wife of my grandma? They did, that is the two women, marry the same man who was the uncle to Pa Moonit. In our clan, it was traditio...