My Past Life

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My Past Life Last week I went to a fortune teller and she told me about my past life. It went something like this: It's 1576; I am a very lucky person, as I married into a very good caste, My husband, was a warrior for the king, on day he comes home from a gruesome, bloody battle. As usual, he took with him the heads of the men he killed. He walked into our home and without even saying hello to me he throws the heads on the dinner table, sits down and demands that I make a delicious dinner for him. He's disappointed in me because I'm not the wife he hoped I would be. So is my family, who made me, marry that imbecile. I am not a very good cook, and do not enjoy cleaning or obeying orders. My husband started to scream that he would hurt me if I wouldn't make his dinner within five minutes. I looked at him, at his cold, dead, eyes and slapped him in the face. Without thinking I took off, to the east, wherever my feet would take me, in search for a new place to live. After walking for two days straight, I had to rest my feet, but unfortunately, just when I lay down, my husband and a few men from the village found me. They bound me up and told me that I was a horrible wife and that the Gods would be angry with me. Then my husband and his friends threw me into a pit, and I eventually died. Because I was such a bad wife, Instead of becoming a Brahmin I have become a Vaisyas. I am now a merchant and sell hats in a market. I am not as rich as I was in my past life, but now I am much happier,
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