I experienced a lot of emotions and thoughts as I read McCormick's novel: anger that this type of treatment towards young women (and men) exists, compassion for Lakshmi and her roommates as they endured such harsh treatment from Mumtaz, disappointment in Lakshmi's stepfather and all of the others who facilitated human trafficking, hope in the end that both she and the American are able to escape the prison of the Indian brothel...no matter what you think of this novel, I am pretty sure you can't help but feel something as you read it.
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I too felt sorry Lakshmi when her father lied to her. I hated how her father told her that she was going to be a normal housemaid, but she was being sent to be a prostitute. It was absolutely traitorous, not just because he lied to her, but also because he sent her there for his own selfish reasons. However, there was some justice in the part because none of the money made was ever sent back to the father. Her father deserved that.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read Sold, every emotion in me was anger. I was appalled at how most villages' conditions were in Nepal, and so incredibly angry that tradition and customs required a woman to submit herself to her husband. It honestly outraged me when Lakshmi's own father traded her into prostitution. The first time I read this book, I did not think he knew what he was sending her in to. But the second or third time I went through the book I realized that he knew exactly what he was doing. It was maddening to think that someone who is supposed to be your child (even if they aren't blood related) can have such little worth when it comes to greed. The way that Lakshmi was treated in the brothel was disgusting and it made me angry that police in India can be bribed and look the other way when they are the people who are supposed to be protecting people. Even though this fact was all too familiar, it is still shocking to read it.
ReplyDeleteI felt alot of emotions while reading Sold, but the strongest one was hatred towards Lakshmi's stepfather. He was controlling, generally rude, and a liar. He's a no good gambler, and thinks that his entertainment is so important that he should sell his daughter for it, and that his presence should cause everyone to stop what they are doing and wait on him. He also is lazy, and lazy people bother me, because then it's not as if he has some right to tell Lakshmi what to do because he feeds her or protects her or anything, he just sits around being lazy. And when they do get some money, he just buys coat for himself, nothing for Lakshmi, Ama, or the baby, which is just selfish.
ReplyDeleteThe emotion that i felt the most was disgust mainly towards Lakshmi's stepfather. He's not a cool guy for lying to her about being a normal housemaid and working for a rich lady. The disgust emotion kicks in when i finally realized that she got sold into prostitution, and it was all her dad's fault. Another character that really set me off with disgust was Mumtaz because the way she treated all of those innocent girls in that brothel, and to what extent she would go in order to get more money out of those girls. When i finished reading this book, i scanned through the pages to see if i could find the general area where her stepfather starts luring her into becoming a "housemaid". That feeling just gets worse and worse every time i read certain cruel passages. The stepfather overall was just greedy and selfish, and used his family in dirty ways to get more money.
ReplyDeleteThe emotion that I felt most while reading Sold was anger. Most of this anger was toward Lakshmi's stepfather and toward the woman running the brothel. It made me angry how her stepfather betrayed her and her family by making them think that Lakshmi was going to the city to become a maid and then willingly sends her to the Happiness House. As a woman, I feel as though Mumtaz should have been way more understanding with the girls working in the house. Also, I don't understand how she could look directly at the toll it takes on the girls and continue to force them to stay there and work.
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ReplyDeleteAlthough there are many comments explaining the hatred towards the stepfather, when I first read the book "Sold" I did not feel hatred, but felt betrayal. Despite the fact that he was not the biological father of Lakshmi, one would expect love, and compassion from the father as well as caring for her well being, and education. He, sadly did not do as required and that is why I felt betrayal. But nothing revolted me more than when I first started reading how Mumtaz not only drugged Lakshmi in order for her to do what she ordered to, but also the fact that if a girl has the "disease" or in other words AIDS, Mumtaz would kick them out after all they did for her, as if she is a piece of toy, needed one day, and thrown out the next. When I read that part...I felt my heart heavier, and needed to pause before reading again.
ReplyDeleteWhile reading Sold I couldn't help but be filled with emotion, all of which were negative. I felt so must pain for Lakshmi and what she had to endure throughout the entire book just to be set free from the "Happiness House". So much anger went towards Mumtaz, the leader of the house. Constantly Mumtaz showed that she was deceiving with her lies and tricks she played on the girls she kept after, acting as if they could be free one day by her command. Mumtaz was greedy, selfish and absolutely repulsive as well as Lakshmi's stepfather who got her there in the first place. I don't care if Lakshmi was blood related to the stepfather or not, nobody deserves to have themselves trafficked, especially against their own will. I was and still am disgusted by the fact that human trafficking still takes place today in the world for both women and men, nobody should have to go through what the character Lakshmi did.
ReplyDeleteThere were many emotions that ran through my mind when i read the book Sold by Patricia McCormick. But the one emotion that i felt the most was sorrow. There are not many worse things that can happen to a young teenage girl then being sold into prostitution. I felt really sorry for Lakshmi, not only because she was so innocent and naive but also because she didn't even know what she was getting herself into. She is being traded from one person to another for what she thinks as being sold as a maid, but she is so wrong. I also feel sorrow because of the way that she is treated there. Mumtaz is one of the most wicked and greedy women i have ever heard of. She treats Lakshmi like she is literally dirt and she deliberately cheats her out of her debt that the family owes and tries to use her until she either gets too old or develops a disease. This was a depressing book and I would be truly shocked if anyone who read this book didn't feel the least bit of sadness.
ReplyDeleteWhen reading Sold, two main emotions ran through me, frustration and fear. Frustration to Lakshmi because I felt like she was being so oblivious to her parents cause it was obvious that something was happening and she couldn't tell. I wanted to yell at the book! But, then I realized that she was 13, and then kicked in the fear because her being obliviousness wasn't really her fault cause all she was being was innocent. She couldn't help but to be vulnerable.
ReplyDeleteThe main emotion I felt while reading Sold was hatred towards Mumtaz, the woman in charge of the brothel, and Lakshmi's stepfather. At times while reading this novel I couldn't even believe what I was reading. The girls suffering in the so called "Happy House" went through unbearable life experiences that no woman should ever face. Everytime Lakshmi felt as if she made enough money to leave Mumtaz would require a tax or take out extra money for food, making it seem like Lakshmi really would never escape. Lakshmi's stepfather is another story. He is an extremely lazy and selfish man that lied to his daughter in order for the family to recieve money. I also found it dusgusting that the Police were able to be bribbed in order to not free the suffering girls. I cant even imagine how traumatizing this experience must have been for Lakshmi and the rest of the girls. In general, it just made me mad and want to do something to help them.
ReplyDeleteIf anything I felt, it was a bit of annoyed. Sure, I was a bit sympathetic, but my main emotion (if any emotion at all) was annoyed. I was ticked off that her father would do something as to sell off his daughter, though to be honest, if I look through his point of view, I can see why he would. I'm also a bit annoyed that at this point in time the women in such third world countries are not liberated, considering we're already at this point in time. I was extremely ticked off with Mumtaz. Her haughtiness and manipulative ways were something that I see as inexcusable. Her greed got the best in her, and caused her to resort to human trafficking to have such money in her possession. Heh, this world's heading for quite a downfall...
ReplyDeleteWhile reading Sold, I found that I had a feeling of sadness about Lakshmi's life and the other women in the brothel. Not only did I feel bad because some of the girls were sold by their families, but also because some of the women chose to stay just because they needed all of the money they could get to pay for their children. Lakshmi's dad was a cruel man for telling her she was going to be a maid. I can't even imagine how her father felt after he sent her away. I hope that he realized what a bad thing he did and felt the same sadness Lakshmi felt. Basically the only part of the book in which I didn't feel bad for her was at the very end when she was rescued by the Americans.
ReplyDeleteI had many feelings when I was reading sold. The strongest feeling I felt was disgust and anger toward Lakshmi’s stepfather. He may have lied and sold his stepdaughter like she was an object, but the thing that made me the angriest was his gambling. If he had not been a gambler the family could have survived just fine solely on the crops. Also he gambled away the family’s future when he lost the motorcycle. The motorcycle could have bought the family a tin roof and many other things that would improve their quality of living by a lot. He sold his daughter instead of a motorcycle, and that made me angry.
ReplyDeleteAn emotion that I felt while reading sold was anger. I was mad at Lakshmi's father because he sold her into human trafficking. I was also mad at everyone else who took part in Lakshmi's journey too the city, where she would be trafficked. I also felt very sorry for Lakshmi and the other girls. They had to live a very hard life with virtually no freedoms. One of the people I felt the most sad for was Monica. I felt bad for her because she paid off her debt but was shunned from her city and then forced to return to the "happy house".
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ReplyDeleteThe main emotion I had when reading this book was anger for Lakshmi's stepdad. I feel like it was cruel and dishonest what he did to Lakshmi. To him, Lakshmi was a chance to make money and he didn't care what happened to her. He only thought of her as an object for sale. Lakshmi wouldn't have been sold either if her stepdad hadn't had a gambling issue. Every little thing her stepdad did hurt Lakshmi in different ways and then ultimately it ended up with her being sold into prostitution.
While reading Sold by Patricia McCormick I felt an aboundance of emotion, but one of the strongest things I felt was revulsion. It was absoluting discusting that Lakshmi's stepfather would just trade her into sex slavery for some money that he would just gamble away until he had nothing more. It was even more repulsive that people could just look away and pretend it wasn't happening. The most sickening thing was how Mumtaz treated the girls in the Happiness House. Being a fellow girl, I would have expected that Mumtaz would understand what it was like in the House and what being sold would have felt like. I have no idea how she could be a part of something like that, and how she could live with herself is appalling. Overall, I was just thoroughly disgusted with how everyone ignored what was happening, and how sickining it is that this is really happening, and nobody is speaking up to help these girls.
ReplyDeleteWhile reading Sold by Patricia McCormick, I felt a good majority of the emotions that the human body can express. But the one emotion I felt the most was anger. Towards the beginning of the book I was angry at the stepfather. Lakshmi and her mother would bust their chops to keep the crops to sell to maintain what little they have, but the father would take what little they had and waste it on gambling, cigarettes and unnecessary extra clothing. When he tricked Lakshmi into prostitution, I was heated. I was angry toward Mumtaz for running this so called "Happy House" and treating the women of the house like dogs and for cheating Lakshmi and everyone else out of ever leaving.Most of all I was angry at the fact that, even though Sold is a work of fiction, it is a real life horror story for thousands and thousands of people EVERY.SINGLE.DAY. Young, old, men, women, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, people of all and ANY kind being trafficked and used as sex slaves. And the sad part is, many of them will not get the sweet gift of escape just like Lakshmi did. Reading Sold made me seriously interested in helping people like Lakshmi one day. To help them escape their "Happy Houses" and live in real homes and hopefully regained what they may have lost while in the utterly disgusting trade of human trafficking. Hopefully one day I can be someone's "American".
ReplyDeleteWhile reading Sold, the feeling that struck me hardest was a loathing for Lakshmi's stepfather and Mumtaz. I think that it is just completely awful that they can both live with themselves for how they are living their lives. Lakshmi's stepfather is so self absorbed that he probably doesn't view the fact that he sold Lakshmi to a sex trafficker, which is awful. The fact that he might not even see what he did as being wrong caused me to loathe him throughout the book while reading what Lakshmi was going through. I also felt a lot of hatred toward Mumtaz, because not only does she run the brothel, or "The Happy House" as it's referred to, but she also keeps women there even after they have payed their debts off. I think it's just awful that she could live with herself, especially the fact that she was a woman and could have easily been in the same position as the girls living there.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was reading SOLD, I completely read through Lakshmi's eyes, and almost the entire time I felt betrayal. She was obviously betrayed by her father. Then she was betrayed by her "auntie" and her "husband". Most of all she was betrayed by Mumtaz. Mumtaz led Lakshmi to believe she could pay off her debts, even though it was impossible. The only people Lakshmi was not betrayed by was Harish, Shahanna, and the third American Lakshmi encountered. The American was the only one who kept his promise and was there for Lakshmi. He was the only one who carried through.
ReplyDeleteI definitely felt disapointment that so many people think human trafficking is a way of life for so many people. So many people knew about what was happening inside the house, yet only one person did something about it. Lots of men use the women like they are on the earth to do anything for their man, and don't think twice about it. Lakshmi's dad and family also disappoint me because they chose to sell her off for a better life for themselves back home. Lakshmi's dad could have actually gone and found a job to support his family instead of selling his daughter like like an object and gambling all of the family's money. Her parents knew the truth to where she was going and her mother should have not let her go, because I think she knew where she was going.
ReplyDeleteWhile I read, the main emotion I was feeling was anger. I wondered how all the customers of the brothel could look themselves in the eye after basically raping a child. How do they justify this to themselves? Do they have children of their own? What would drive a person to do this? I suppose they had miserable lives of their own but that is no excuse. As I read, i got more and more angry. The cops who kept silent because Mumtaz paid them made even more mad. At the end of the book, I wondered what would happen to Lakshmi even after she was rescued.
ReplyDeleteThe main emotion I felt while reading sold was definitely anger. I was angry at Mumtaz for being such a cruel women and putting innocent girls through such a horrible thing. I was also angry at Lakshmi's stepfather for selling her. If he wouldn't have gambled all of their money away he wouldn't of had to sell her.
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ReplyDeleteAs I read Sold, I felt the feeling of being totally blown away. I was blown away by the fact that Lakshmi had to endure such hardships just for her family to prosper. I was also blown away by the fact that there are tons of girls out there who were very unfortunate to be engulfed in the greed of human traffickers. I am also blown away by the fact that I have never read such a detailed synopsis about how starving the people in third world countries actually are, and here in America it is a part of our daily routine to throw out have eaten items. The thing I am most blown away about is the fact that here in the countries where we have so much, that we give so little to people who really need it. This reminded me of a line from the song by Matthew West called My Own Little World. The line is, “I never gave till it hurt.” That line sums up a fair amount of people in the wealthy countries. The thing sold really reminded me is that here in America we have so much to be thankful for, and that we should give so people all across the world can be as thankful as me.
ReplyDeleteThe emotion that occured to me throughout the book was shock. Shock that people could treat other people like something less than human, shocked that this is based off of actuall events, mainly shocked that we are reading about it in a tenth grade english class. I do not see why we had to read a vulgar book on child prostitution for summer reading, it was not even (in my own opinion) well written. Other than that the book did not really touch me, it was simply one horrible event after another to the point that it almost drowned out the point it was trying to make. I could not feel for the characters, it was not like I was reading a book, more like watching a dull documentary at seven in the morning.
ReplyDeleteWhile reading sold I was very angry, and slightly confused. First off, I do not understand how Lakshmi's step father could have willing sold Lakshmi and than buy himself fancy clothes and cigarettes with the money that he earned by selling his step daughter. I was also confused because i wondered if Lakshmi's family knew, did her step father know that he was selling her into sex slavery? Was the other girl a sex slave? Did Lakshmi's mother know she was sold into sex slavery? I was also mad that women were treated so bad, and objectified. Most of all I was mad at the police, how could anyone in there right mind let sex slavery go on, especially since he is being paid to do the right thing and uphold the law.
ReplyDeleteWhile reading Sold, I felt not only violated as a female but also disgusted at how sick people in the world are. Throughout this book all I could think about was the pure horror that Lakshmi endured every single day. She had her childhood taken away from her and that broke my heart. No person let alone a child should have to endure the pain and abuse that Lakshmi did. The book was also so descriptive that I sometimes would have to put it down in order to catch my breath. I do not recommend this book to young people because I believe it is a very mature read and it was extremely vulgar.
ReplyDeleteWhat I felt while reading this book was confusion. That is because some of the decisions in this book were not understandable. An example is when Lakshmi was sold by her father. That is just not something you would do unannounced. I think her father is only thinking about the benefit of himself and not thinking of his daughter. The reasoning to why he thought selling his daughter was okay is unknown to me, and I don't want to know.
ReplyDeleteI had felt so many emotions while reading this book, but the one that I felt the most was anger. I was so angry that Lakshmi got tricked like that, because it was just really mean and digusting! I was so angry with her stepfather, because he was wasting all the family's money, and never did anything at all, and then he sold his daughter into prostitution for money that he would gamble away in a heartbeat. Her mother had kept saying that a man is better than no man at all and that had made me even angrier, because they would have totally been better off without him. Last but certainly not least, the person that had made me really mad was Mumtaz. She mad me really mad because she was just so mean, rude, and just plain horrible, because of what she was doing to all those girls.
ReplyDeleteAs I read Sold, I had many emotions, as anyone would, but the most prevalent were certainly disbelief and shock. To read about this kind of abuse and the people that would force children into this life is unimaginable for us who are not in danger of these things happening to ourselves. I felt shocked as I read because these actions are continuing today, yet it does not seem high on our list of predicaments to help eradicate, such as hunger or disease. The vignette in which Mumtaz pays the local police to "look the other way" from her slavery organization shocked me as well because it shows what those police prefer: monetary gain over the freedom of children. As her stepfather sold Lakshmi to Mumtaz in order to purchase new clothes, I was wondering how he could make that decision. Was it because he felt so desperate that there was no other way to make money, or was it because he knew the cheating ways of Mumtaz, and he used it as a way to get rid of Lakshmi in order to make a quick 800 rupees? These questions shocked me and certainly made me think about how we as a people will treat each other, all to gain a little money.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I first read the book Sold, there were a lot of thoughts and emotions that were going through my head. The main emotion that I was feeling was sympathy. I was sympathetic about the hardships that Lakshmi had just to help her family live and succeed. I was sympathetic about how little the people over in the third world countries were. People over here are always just throwing half of their food away and that really got me upset because I realized how ungrateful people are. I felt sympathetic about how the girls were treated with all of the prostitution and it just made me feel awful.
ReplyDeleteI mostly felt angry while reading Sold. I was angry that her mother kept Lakshmi's stepfather around, even though he did nothing to help out. He actually did the opposite and gambled away all the money that they worked so hard to make, which proves that the family would've been better off without him. I was really mad when Lakshmi's stepfather sold her into prostitution, only to get money that I'm sure he gambled away. It only made it worse that Lakshmi was so confused and betrayed and constantly lied to. And of course, Mumtaz made me angry because she treated these girls so terribly and lied to them about paying off a debt. Mumtaz was going to keep them there until they were of no more use to her, but of course, she didn't tell the girls. This lie gave a lot of them false hope that they would eventually leave, and that's what made me the angriest.
ReplyDeleteWhile reading Sold I felt upset. I couldn't believe that trafficking women especially young girls still existed. I never thought of how they got to where they are. Lakshmi got into trafficking unknowingly because her stepfather signed her for it. I felt upset because her father used her for the money that he will eventually gamble away. Some of Lakshmi's friends got into the business because they needed money. The part of the book that made me the most upset was when Lakshmi found out that once you get into trafficking it is extremely hard to get out. This made me feel like there was no hope for Lakshmi.
ReplyDeleteWhile reading sold the main emotion that I kept running back to was betrayel. Lakshmi would not of had to endure such agony and hurt if it wasn't for her selfish step father. Even once Lakshmi was sold to her new auntie she was once again sold as a bride to some random man. Right after Lakshmi's step father sold her so did her newest "owner". Left and right Lakshmi was being betrayed not only by her family but by ones who she thought she could trust to take care of her and failed at doing so. All my sympathy goes out to Lakshmi.
ReplyDeleteWhile I was reading Sold, I felt a storm of emotions. But among them was a rather curious one: defensiveness. I read the book with a sick feeling in my stomach, a part of me already dreading the horrors I knew were to come. But as defensive as I felt towards Lakshmi and the women who were forced to commit such unspeakable acts, I still felt defensive towards my country. When I read the author's note, I read that many of the Nepalese girls were trafficked to the red-light district of Calcutta. For me, Calcutta has always been a city of dreams. A city of family, of child-hood memories. Though I already knew such things happened, at part of me bristled at the book, irrationally angry as I read it, for having tainted my dear city. Though I had to come to terms with the fact that terrible things like this happen everyday, and most are not so luck as to be saved from their fate, a sick part of me was disappointed at the American playing the part of the hero, which I have read far too often in books. Sometimes I feel like it's always written like that because that's what we, as Americans, want to hear. The same things happens in America,though on a smaller scale, but no one wants to play the victim. A larger part of me still just felt relief at the end of book, thankful that the burden of such a dark story could be lightened by the light of hope.
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ReplyDeleteWhile reading Sold by Patricia Mccormick a multitude of emotions ran through my head. All negative emotions, the two biggest that popped into my head were anger and selfishness. Anger in the fact that men could do such terrible things basically at will and with no self conscience. Anger of how drastically in innocent girl's life could change for the worst by doing absoultley nothing to deserve it. A second emotion I felt was about how selfish Lakshmi's stepfather was. He did essentially nothing to help the family and ruined a girls life just for some extra money. Throughout the book I was in despair of over how many horrific things still happen in this world today, and hope one day that an end can come to these atrocious actions
ReplyDeleteWhile reading sold I couldn't believe all the things that happnened to the girl. I don't how a man do such a thing to a girl it's just so wrong. I really didn't know that trafficking Was a real thing till I read this book. I just figured it was one of those things in movies. Just because the while idea of it was so crazy to me. I just wanted to help that girl so bad it mad me mad when I read this book.
ReplyDeleteOne of the main emotions that I felt while reading Sold was sympathy. I felt sympathy for Lakshmi because her stepfather does not care for her. I also felt bad for Ama, who has to work everyday and has to endure the pain when her husband goes to throw their money away by gambling. Especially how Mumtaz would treat the people in the "Happiness House" made me sympathetic. It is sad how they lie right to you by calling the place the "Happiness House", when there is just pain and suffering.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was reading Sold , the emotion I felt was mad. I say this because this could happen to anyone. She is trying everything to help her family out. Her stepfarhter does not care and does nothing gamble off their money. When she do this she gets kiddnapped and put into the "Happy House."
ReplyDeleteAlong with many others, the main emotion I felt while reading Sold, was free. Lakshmi was forced to do something she didn't want to do and was abused if she didn't. The police task force in her country also did not obey to their duties if bribed with money and the ones that she trusted tricked he into prostitution. Sold made me realize that I have it so easy, but how lucky I am to live in a country where I am free.
ReplyDeleteIn the book, sold, I felt sorry for lakshmi because of how she was used for something to benefit someone else, with no concern of what happens to her. She was forcefully sold into prostitution by her father to make some money, and her father abandons her and allows her to be trafficked so he can make a bit of money, it displays how money can cause people to be corrupt, and sometimes betray their loved ones.
ReplyDeleteWhile I was reading Sold by Patricia McCormick I had many emotions. Above all I have an only one strong emotion while reading any parts of this book that is sad but encouraging feeling. Even though Lakshmi had a hard life, she was always outgoing and being herself. She had a horrible stepfather and he sold Lakshmi to prostitution. She gave up her lovely life in Nepal. She had to sell her rights and freedom as a thirteen years old girl. She lost everything but she tried to be who she was. I like Lakshmi’s character and it made me a sense of relief during reading this book.
ReplyDeleteThe book sold gave me many emotions while I was reading it. I was angry that fathers or stepfathers would sell their own children into prostitution. Even though her life wasn't great in Nepal, as she would sometimes go hungry, it was better than being a prostitute. I also found it interesting that people put into these situations are sometimes brainwashed to think that the United States will do even worse things to them than being a prostitute would be. However, I feel better knowing that there are people trying to stop it like in the final pages of Sold.
ReplyDeleteSold is such an emotion packed book. Like you said, it's an easy read word wise, but in no way is it easy to read emotionally. Throughout the book Sold, I felt constant fear for Lakshmi. I feared that her stepfather would mistreat her or that she would not survive her journey. Mostly, I feared that she would die in the brothel. Between getting sick, sexually abused, or the beatings from Mumtaz, I did not think Lakshmi would survive.
ReplyDeleteWhile I was reading Sold I mainly felt the emotion anger. I felt anger towards her Stepfather for selling her in to prostitution in the first place. I felt anger to Mumtaz for running the buisness and for treating her and the others so badly. But I think I was the most bothered about how bad the men in the book treated the woman like they were worthless, and the fact that this happens in some peoples everyday life...
ReplyDeleteI felt sympathy for Lakshmi through out this novel. I felt bad for her home life. Her parents are not as loving as most are. I feel bad for what she went through in the brothel. That would be hard for a young girl to go through. Even though this book is quite descriptive, I still can not imagine what that would be like. I felt sympathy for Lakshmi even after she was rescued. That kind of experience is something that would be possible to forget or ever put behind you. Even though she is free she now has no where to call home.
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