Five people live in my home in Sri Lanka: mage amma (Kanthi), mage taattaa (Susantha), mage nangi (Sajani), mage balla (Teena), and Mr. Hamma. My amma (mother) is a small, round woman with long black hair she wears in a ponytail that reaches down to her hips. She wears linen saris for her work at the ministry but can most often be seen in long housedresses with large, floral prints. Although I have not been able to glean the specific nature of her job, it seems she teaches individuals with no other marketable skills to make artificial flowers for a living. The house, therefore, has at least one vase in each room teeming with fabric flowers. My taattaa is a skinny man only a little taller than myself, with graying hair and distinctive features. He works
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