“Gogo, do you know her?” Andre asks.
Gogo shakes her head. She looks at the woman in front of her and is surprised.
“Sorry, my friend says she doesn’t know you.” Andre still holds Gogo.
But the woman is still grabbing one of Gogo’s arms. If Andre pulls Gogo, she will get hurt.
“Rebecca, I’m your mom!” The woman looks sadly at Gogo.
Andre thinks that if he doesn’t know Gogo, he will think what the woman says is true.
“But I really don’t know you!”
Gogo says and tries to get her hand back, but she fails.
“I’m your mom!” The woman squats down and puts her arm around Gogo’s shoulders. She asks Gogo to look into her eyes and says, “Rebecca, look at me. You know me, don’t you?”
Gogo shakes her head and says, “you are not my mom.”
“Why? You were too young when you left, so you forgot me. Think about it and you will remember me.” The woman says.
Andre looks at the woman carefully. She doesn’t seem to be lying. Andre thinks she has a problem. For example, her daughter’s departure stimulated her a lot, and Gogo happens to look like her daughter.
“Is your child a boy or a girl?” Andre asks.
“A girl, of course.” The woman replies without hesitation. She pinches Gogo’s face and says, “she looks like me. How could she not be my daughter?”
Andre looks at Gogo and the woman. They really look alike.
“But I’m a boy.” Gogo says.
The woman hesitates and finally asks, “boy?”
Gogo nods, and so does Andre.
“He is a boy indeed. He’s my brother. We sleep in the same bed every day.” Andre says.
That woman believes them. She lets go of Gogo and says, “I was wrong.”
Her voice is dismal. She takes another look at Gogo. “I’m sorry. You and my daughter look alike.”
“It doesn’t matter.” Gogo nods and doesn’t blame her.
At this point, Miya and others come up from the bleacher. They were just not far away. When the children were pestered by the woman, they were shocked.
“Gogo, Andre, what’s going on?” Miya protects the two children and then looks at the woman.
The woman looks at Miya, too. She asks, “are these two children yours?”
Miya nods naturally, “yes.”
The woman responds and leaves in a daze.
Miya thinks that woman is really strange. She asks the two children, “do you know the woman just now?”
Andre shakes his head. “Her child and Gogo look alike, so she’s mistaken.”
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