My grandmother put the dead child in a dustpan and buried it in the mass grave behind the house. That mass grave was just a mound of earth. Death was common in that era, so no one knew how many people were buried in that mound. They only knew that there were many mounds of earth, and each mound represented one or more people. Buried inside. And my grandma told me that she heard with her own ears that there were ghosts crying in the chaos at night, which was a very scary and desolate sound.

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