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CHILDLIKE JOY

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                                Image credit: www.canstockphoto.com           The evening breeze conveyed little children's   shrill laughter and chatter into Mandy’s ears. Squeals of delight came from the children as they jumped several times on a mattress placed on a floor in the garden. Two   of the children were her   nieces; one was her nephew   while others were neighbours. Yesterday, like many others days, they had played on a mattress in   the   ‘children’s room’. But once Tobi, Mandy’s nephew collided with a wall clock that fell clattering   on   the floor, Mandy had angrily pulled a mattress out of the house when the children couldn’t stop jumping on a mattress.             Mandy watched the children’s hilarious display with enthusiasm even though she was supposed to leave for her room   as soon as   she had dropped   the   mattress for the kids in the garden. They swayed irrationally just like the way some red hibiscus flowers danced to the rhythm play