She Grew Anyway - part 2

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So Now Priscilla was one year old left all alone. Her grandmother came forward to take care of her. After her mother's death, her grandfather stopped drinking alcohol, and by that time he almost wasted all his wealth on drinking alcohol and gambling. Both grandparents loved her very much as they saw their daughter in her. When she was nine years old, they celebrated her birthday in very grand manner. Priscilla did not know how her mother look like and she did not have any memory of her. In those days photos also were very uncommon, so she really knew nothing about her mother. She considered her grandparents were her own parents. She was enjoying life happily ignoring her past. She thought she was really blessed having that life.

The Dream:

Her grandparents joined her in a convent for schooling. Initially she used to study normally like an average student. But when she was in 4th grade, she had a dream. In that she was waiting for Jesus, and he appeared to her. Jesus asked her what was your desire, and innocently she said to him that she needs to get first rank in that exam. To her amazement, she really got first rank in her 4th grade annual exams. That left a deep impression on her heart. From then on, she continued to excel in her studies and got very good grades.

Her grandparents were very proud of her since she was exceling in her studies. She had lot of friends in that village, and she used to visit all her friends' homes to play. Slowly she started observing some differences in her friend's families. She thought, her friends had mother, father and their siblings. But she was alone. Though her grandparents were taking good care of her, this realization was running deeply in her mind.

The Princess:

So, after she completed her 5th grade, her grandfather contested village elections and won as village president. So soon things started to change, many workers working in the gram panchayat used to come to their house and started helping in their household chores. So, Priscilla literally need not do anything at home except studying. Everything came to her even before she asked. She was treated like a princess since her grandfather was a village Sarpanch. Her Joy knew no bounds and she felt as though she did not lose anything really. Her grandfather was a very helping and generous man. He was very kindhearted and helped lot of villagers with out taking any bribes. In his term, he laid new roads, developed water connections, helped so many poor people. He in turn used his own possessions to help them. He donated his own land and also gathered some land from other villagers and gave it for free to government for building government Hospital in that village. Because of his good deeds and selfless attitude, he was loved by everyone in the village including from small to great.

The chaos:

Village President term is for five years. So, at fifth year of his term, because of his relationships with politicians, her grandfather again started drinking alcohol and got addicted to it. He used to walk fully drunk and without awareness of losing clothes on his body, on the same roads where he served as president. Priscilla and her grandmother used to bring him home in the late night after he fell on roads fully drunk. All dreams of Priscilla were shattered once again. She literally felt that it would be good if her grandfather had died instead of going through this agony.

To be Continued in Part 3...............

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