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On a night like any other, two twins were borns from a poor farmer David and his wife Betsy. unfortunately, due to complications, Betsy died, leaving David to protect and love their two children. He named the girl after his late wife, Betsy, and the boy was named Lucas, the maiden name of his wife. David didn’t know much about raising children, he struggled a lot throughout the following months, having to struggle with his farm, which was doing poorly and taking care of two babies, who needed clothes, food and baby needs which he couldn’t provide due to a very low income. His farm was suffering, and he couldn't hire any workers due to the lack of money. His crops would die and only little few would survive, and only had one very skinny cow who didn't provide much in the farm. …show more content…
However, knowing his farm is a failure, he began to do small jobs for his community, earning very little but grateful that it’s better than nothing. He would work in the morning on his farm while at the same time taking care of the twins, in the afternoon he would take the twins with him to town to a family friend while he work small jobs like delivery, watering plants, washing dishes, etc… one night he went home with them, one on his back and the other in the front. Tired and sore, he put the twins to sleep and goes to bed. unfortunately, David forgot to blow out the candles and a strong wind came opening the windows and knocking the candles down. A fire broke out. David quickly awaken and took the kids out to safety. He returns trying to take out the fire, but it got out of control which he had to retreat. The fire burned down the house and a part of the

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