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in-law’s natural enemy? So your mother will be my

natural enemy soon!”

“Oh, how can you think of things like that?” I

asked her in surprise.

“That’s the conclusion I have come to from

reality. All the mother-in-laws and corresponding

daughter-in-laws I know are always locked in a

fierce struggle. They fight every day. It’s all because

of money. Every family is poor! This is the reality!

Don’t you know it?” she asked me. To be frank, what

she said was true. It was really a social issue that

mother-in-laws would fight her daughter-in-laws.

They were fighting really because of money. It was

indeed a realistic issue that I had to face. I said

nothing.

“I really wish you had no mother! But you do.

So you have to consider this seriously. If you want to

have your mother in your life, then forget me! And if

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