The eighteen-year-old she was gentle and shy, the twenty-year-old she cried all day long, and the thirty-year-old she spoke foul language and resolutely slept in a separate room with her husband.
Her son tied her to this family for twenty-two years, and her grandchildren tied her here until she was sixty-five years old.
Finally waiting for that day, she resolutely carried her luggage and walked out of the village without looking back.
Concept: How much pain does it take to go from gentleness to toughness?