BABA DAVID NEO MUSES ABOUT THE QUINTESSENTIAL MATRIARCH

Photo courtesy of Baba David Neo.

The author’s grandmother (pictured here) was the eldest and only child of a legitimate marriage. Yet, because she was a girl, she did not inherit any share of her father’s estate.

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