We ask to meet another elderly person in the village: she is a lady of 93. She remembers pounding rice for the Japanese army in World War II. She sits beside a very smoky fire because the smoke keeps away insects. It obviously works because we couldn’t see one insect! She tries both pairs of glasses. Either made her sight clearer, but the reading glasses were the favourite. Beneath her cardigan, she is wearing traditional dress including silver drop-earrings that are so heavy they have elongated her ear lobes.
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