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When Life Rewinds — Part II
Don’t you know that life will find ways to send us back into our lives to test us?
Relief showed on her face, and she yelled, “Don’t you know you should call before coming to people’s houses and knock before you enter?”
Paula read her cousin’s rage and swayed her body from left to right, standing firm on her two feet. The knife and cast-iron frying pan are weapons.
Vicki screamed, storming towards her, ignoring the fact that she was armed. “You were so caught up in your expensive vehicle, fake hair, nails, eyelashes, and life that you forgot you came from the rock. Are you so high up in the sky that you can’t see inside your heart?”
Paula swayed her upper body, clutching the frying pan and knife, and eased closer to meet Vicki, “I earned everything I got!”
“Girl, don’t you know life?” Vicki shouts into her face as their bodies almost touch. “Don’t you know that life will find ways to send us back into our lives to test us? Imagine this,” she reflects, easing closer to her. “Your stepmother helped you despite how your father treated…
