The date is July 31st. Maji has informed the narrator that she is pregnant. She also reveals that she had been a midwife and knew the safe ways of inducing abortion, should that be the narrator's choice. The narrator skips through puddles back to her room: the heat has passed and monsoon season has begun.
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