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There was a woman. She was perfect in every aspect, her
only defect being no eyebrow. She always penciled her eyebrows
with heavy makeup. But she was not well. One day, she found
a lover. They did love each other. Her loved one was such
an emotional man, and he treated her with kind-heartedness.
Finally, they got married. She was always afraid that having
no eyebrow might be discovered.
Keeping her own secret, she spent two years. She thought he
would dislike her if he once knew the secret. She did not
want to even imagine that his gentle eyes might change into
the eyes of contempt by the fact that she had no eyebrow.
Three years of her married life passed with her secret kept.
One day, there came an unforeseen misfortune to this husband
and wife. His business on the rise came to fail in an instant.
They were forced out of their house, and they had to start
everything at the bottom.
The first one they did was briquettes delivery. They delivered
briquettes to houses helping each other. When the husband
drew the cart filled with briquettes ahead, the wife pushed
the cart from behind.
One day afternoon, spring wind was blowing in a rustle. A
wind from the hill blew briquette dust over her face. Tears
came into her eyes, and she felt sore in the eyes. Lest it
should be found out, she couldn't do anything with that. At
the moment, her husband stopped walking and came close to
her. He began to wipe dust from her face with a towel. He
did not touch her eyebrows. After he wiped her tears out as
well as dust, he began to draw the cart again with gentle
smiles on his face.
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