“Mother! I sold everything.” Shouted a little girl from afar as she approached the bench where her mother was. Maya’s eyes winded.

“Is this your daughter?” The woman nodded as she dragged her daughter Sophia along and hugged her. The woman was now hugging both girls in her embrace.

“Maya, Mama, think I begged you to buy food for me.” Maya laughed.

“No, she didn’t beg me. I gave her.”

“See, Mama, I told you.” The woman laughed as she already told her daughter that she trusted her. It was now getting late, and Maya could tell that the two people who treated her like a family didn’t have a...