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myeff t1_j5a94i4 wrote

I read it because I was curious about the same thing. The article doesn't say. My guess is she has brothers/sisters that the money will go to, and this child was expendable. There was also this:

> Jain families are sometimes said to encourage their children to enter the monkhood to enhance their relatives' social standing.

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_dead_and_broken t1_j5a6tmh wrote

When I was 7, I had these weird pencils my mom got me bc they were cheaper than normal pencils. They weren't completely wood, sort of plasticky and when you sharpened them, instead of wood shavings and flakes, it would form a spiral that looked like flowers, sort of rose like.

I sold those flower shavings to my fellow classmates. Then I'd buy ice cream at lunch. That was a good week.

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