Ba slipped the gold bangles from my wrists.
She doesn\'t care for school and barely marks the gro.
When your husband dies it\'s over." "What if my good fortune comes back?" "It doesn\'t." Pretty as a peacock, twelve-year-old Leela had been spoiled all her life. "They are signs of a woman\'s good fortune. "A widow can\'t wear bangles," she said.
The gold ones were plain so I didn\'t mind taking them off, but I loved wearing my milk-glass bangles and the lakkh bracelets.
Ba slipped the gold bangles from my wrists