Nu Nu Si Inwa - If you sleep, it's night, if you wake up, it's day.

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"The blind have arrived, hey"

Oh.. Look, you naughty children. The slow-moving car was followed by the children's shrill cries of laughter. It was a welcome sign for Gandhi to a new place. You shouldn't greet him like this, children. We don't see, you blind people. Even though we are blind, we feel sad and weak when we are called that. We also feel angry. We are afraid of the invisible world. Oh.. my son. Are you afraid, too?

Gandhi hugged his little son tightly, who was crying uncontrollably in his arms.

"Hey.. kids, take it off, take it off"

The car stopped softly, the door opened, and I heard a man's voice. It was the voice of an old man driving. I remembered Gandhi. The voice of someone who was helping Gandhi and his companions load their belongings into the car was loud and clear.

"Gandhi.. has arrived"

This is the voice that Gandhi remembers, no matter where he is from.

U Aung's voice. Gandhi's beloved husband U Aung. U Aung's voice came from the side of the car. Oh, he had even gotten out of the car.

"Are we going to get off? Call U Aung Kalay."

"Wait, wait, you can't get off yet. Drop off your stuff and then get off calmly."

The driver, in a loud voice, said to Gandhi, who was getting ready to get out. "Yes, yes. Gandhi and his mother were in the front of the car. Since they were loading their belongings, they put Gandhi and his mother in the front of the car first, then loaded their belongings. The roads in Thingangyun are bad. If Gandhi and his mother were in the back of the car, they would have been thrown away if the car had jumped.

U Aung was in the back of the car. The car was big and had no roof, and the sun was very hot all the way. Gandhi, how far from the school for the blind to the edge of Thingangyun was it? It was a long car ride. If you took the bus, you had to take two steps. Forty-two, thirty-nine, green or red, I don’t know. Oh, there were so many things that Gandhi didn’t know in the new place. It was so good to get some energy. Gandhi only missed school. The school apartment where Gandhi and his wife lived during their early married life. The school apartment where their son was born. Gandhi even cried as he tested the walls of the room before leaving the car.

"Now... I got it, I've put down my stuff, I can get off."

“U Aung, U Aung”

"Gandhi..come, walk slowly, I am here."

Gandhi followed U Aung's voice. As he walked, he wondered what else was left on the floor of the car. If only there was something left among the small, insignificant things...

A box, two mats, a table given to me by my mother, a cat house, a chair, a pagoda, a floor, that was all Gandhi had.

The Gandhis were able to buy a car full of 6 old poles and new logs with the 1,000 rupees the school gave them to move.

"Give me the child, Gandhi."

Gandhi reached out, sensing where U Aung was hearing his voice. Gandhi grabbed U Aung's hand as he reached out, sensing the same. Gandhi slowly reached out and gave it to his son.

"Jump down with my hand"

U Aung tried to lean on the edge of the car floor with one hand, while Gandhi tried to lean on the other hand.

"Did you get it? Did you get it? Did you give it to me, baby?"

The driver's voice, "Oh, oh," as if he was watching Gandhi, reached Gandhi and his family.

“Okay, okay, I can get off, that’s it.”

As soon as he spoke, Gandhi jumped down and fell to the ground. U Aung had to hold him back. Gandhi gained weight after giving birth. He was very upset because he couldn't eat three boxes of rice and milk a day.

“U Aung, before the big drivers leave, ask them what kind of place we are in. What are there?”

"Cool... cool"

It seems that there is a big driver near Gandhi. The big driver's voice is loud and strong, and he is coughing...

“Hey, so you can see it in your mind, so you can understand it, uh... the plot of land you're going to live in is quite large. The plot is fenced off. There are other houses not far from where you live. I don't know what neighborhood it's called. Hey, how much land do you get per person...”

"Give thirty x forty to a family"

"Now, how many years have you all been married?"

"Twenty families"

"That's not bad. You can afford to be so wide. You have a big old building with a tiled roof in the middle of the empty lot, and new walls around the sides."

“Ah... I think that’s U Aung’s workshop. Our school said they were moving the cooperative workshop here, and I heard that the workshop has already been built.”

"Yes, I see two new toilets a short distance behind that workshop. How many people are there in your twenty households?"

"Over eighty people."

"Well... I think they dug a well behind the workshop, I saw the equipment being laid out."

"Hmm... if we haven't dug it yet, where will we get water?"

"I don't know either, now... we'll go."

"Wait... Wait, driver, have they built some houses in the empty lot?"

"There are no houses yet, nothing has been built yet, all of you people are still living in a big factory."

"Hmm... Yes, Aung, our belongings..."

Gandhi became agitated as he spoke.

"I'll give you the baby, U Aung, go and stay, Ma Cho, it would be fine if you take care of it."

"That's right, the workshop is big, it's built on a large scale."

“Oh.. how do we know?” U Aung said, “If we don’t get a place, where will we go? We have to live on the ground. What will we do if the rain comes? It’s summer, but it’s raining.”

"Oh, cool," Gandhi said.

U Aung handed the baby to Gandhi and left. Gandhi had to breastfeed the baby again, who was still in his arms, his head bobbing in his lap, begging for a kiss. Gandhi sat on a box among the piles of belongings. In this box were Gandhi's clothes and all the things he thought were important.

Gandhi knew that there were children and other strangers around Gambi. Their scents, which Gandhi could smell well in his nose, their voices, which Gandhi could hear well in his ears, were foreign. Gandhi knew. They were strangers.

"Who is it?"

Suddenly, a foul odor approached Gandhi, causing him to scream and the child to laugh loudly and run away.

Oh, my God. I just came to see Gandhi. I don't want to buy anything.

Where is the bottle of electricity that my mother bought for Gandhi? It's like people are equal, and there's no such thing as equal goods. Has U Aung returned yet?

"Has Maung Aung arrived yet? How are you, Gandhi and his son?"

Oh... Ma Cho's voice. I think it's because she's a singer. Ma Cho's voice is so good. Ma Cho and U Aung are friends of the same age. Gandhi and U Aung are eight years apart.

Whenever Gandhi asked why he should take Gandhi instead of Ma Cho, who had a good voice, Ma Cho would get angry. He said that he would never take a character like Maung Aung.

Ma Cho is really, what are they seeing? Is it because Ko Htwe is seeing Ma Cho?

U Aung also never saw Gandhi.

U Aung has never seen Gandhi either.

And then there were the old lady Ma Ma Kyung, Blai Kai Za, Ko Kan Oo, Ma Nyo Sam, Ko San Maung...

Oh.. that's all.

The Gandhis from these twenty households had never seen each other before.

Those who will never be seen again.