The entire village was sh0cked when one of the local men returned to his parents’ house with a woman with this appearance: but soon you heard about a new wife.

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“I couldn’t leave her,” he said, looking into his parents’ eyes. “I fell in love not with her face, but with her heart.”

After these words, the mother burst into tears and approached her daughter-in-law. She hugged her for the first time—carefully, as if afraid of hurting her.

And in the morning, the neighbors began whispering again.

Only now, with respect.