On the first day, my mother-in-law smiled and humiliated me: “In this house you will eat the leftovers”; I didn’t raise my voice, I just obeyed every word until she had to cook alone for the whole family, and then everyone understood that the black notebook hid something much darker.

states the new daughter-in-law must not touch the table or the food of her elders until everyone has eaten. To respect this tradition today, she has decided to personally take charge of the meal with the purity and authority that only a mother in this family possesses, while I will serve tea and wait my turn.”

The silence in the room was absolute.

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