The man looked down suddenly as a look of sheer pain crossed his face.
“My daughter couldn’t be buried with our ancestors, alas, because she took her own life, and the life of the unborn child in her womb,” he said in a devastated voice. “She was indeed buried in the cemetery of the shameful!”
I looked at him, and tears slowly fell down my face. With a herculean effort I slid off the chair and fell down on my knees in front of him.
“I’m so sorry!” I wailed with acute distress. “It was all my fault, and I deserve every bit of your fury! I was a really bad man then, and what I did to Akos is unpardonable. Please, forgive me! I’ll do anything to have her buried right, please! Tell me what to do, and I’ll do it!”
The man spoke rapidly in his native language, his face filled with pain, obviously translating my words to them.
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