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2024-10-29 19:42:56Minda is still observing them. Until someone calls for her and shakes her attention.
“Hey, what are you doing? Peeking someone?”
Minda averts her attention, and it’s just Silvy who happens to stay in her house along with Cindy.
She finds Silvy’s face looking a bit annoyed by something. She then averts her attention to another direction, and finds Cindy with Tony in the coffee shop.
It’s clear that Cindy’s relationship with Silvy has gotten worse recently. And Cindy has never said a word to Silvy no matter how hard Silvy tried to apologize.
For whatever reason, Minda always finds the obligation to reconcile those two. And right now, she also finds the need to help Hannah and Ronald to integrate and adapt with the life in that housing complex.
She mistakes that they have been accepted by Ar
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