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Man's Story - Have Children - Sell Grain - Allow Rummaging
During the last five years you and your wife have given birth to two
more children that live (a boy and a girl), giving you six children
in all. As a result of your older children's poor diet and their
eating garbage from the streets, three of them have become seriously
ill and have severe diarrhea. They are increasingly weakened
and can barely rise off their sleeping mats.
Medical help is available free, but it is three days' journey by foot (the only means of travel available to you). The children are weak and would need to be carried most of the way. You would have to be away from your fields for a week.
You and your wife discuss the health of your children and the danger to your fields from stray cattle, flood, and theft.
If you decide to seek medical help for your children, continue your story here.