In a well connected family,
even if one member is not well, invariably the entire family feels the 'sickness';
This was much more signified, exemplified, and illustrated by COVID-19.
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My 93 years old mother, four years ago, was fasting every Monday, till her younger daughter-in-law got a kidney from a donor!
After transplantation, she broke the fast that she had kept for one year.
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