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I nodded softly, my heart pounding. No one had ever treated me with such respect at a bank. The branch manager arrived, greeted me politely, and opened the account details on his computer.
When he told me the actual balance, my hands began to shake. The 35,000 dollars shown in the passbook had grown exponentially due to years of accumulated interest and my mother-in-law’s secret deposits. All those years of sacrifice, care, and devotion were reflected in this amount—enough to secure my family’s future and honor her memory.
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