Summary Of The Madonna In Cuba

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In Cuba in the year 1937, A Mother and her daughter Josephine have a statue of Madonna that has been owned by their family since it was given to Josephine’s great-great-great grandmother and it can cry tears. The madonna is a statue that both girls worship. Women were massacred, including josephine’s grandmother, at a river known as massacre river, the mother and josephine witnessed this event. The mother walked through the river while it was filled with the dead and was covered in blood when she got out of the river. So they believe they are they are the daughters of the river. The mother was babysitting a child with the sickness colic and it ended up dying from it. But the people of Cuba believed she killed the child. The people believed

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