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"Mom, can you just give it a rest?" Daisy was increasingly siding with Emmanuel. She hadn't always thought her mother, Georgia, was overreacting, but now she was convinced Georgia was just being unreasonable.

"Emmanuel is part of our family. He does the laundry, cooks, mops, even kneels on durians—has he ever complained? Please, stop making a scene, okay?"

Georgia was livid