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Week 15 Story: The Nurturer

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In a certain village there lived a young couple that was known by all to be happy, peaceful and madly in love. The town was thankful to have a young couple like them that represented all that people should strive for in a relationship. The town was devastated to learn that the wife passed away while attempting to undergo natural childbirth in the comfort of her home, leaving her husband to be a widower. The people of the town sent their condolences. The people of the town volunteered to help the man and his new child by sending food and helping around their house any way that they could. The widower was stressed and decided the best course of action was to hire an old woman to look after his child. This was to fill the empty spot of nourisher that the late mother left. Unfortunately the baby was ill-behaved, refusing to eat, and crying constantly. There appeared to be no way to calm the small child. There was a great part of the night where it appeared that the baby would suddenly be