And the rainy season had Changed into the winter of that year I was pa

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The animals under the heading of supernormal objects are not all purveyors of ill-luck, but the monitor lizard is: its entry into a house presages poverty. A good-for-nothing person in Burma is often dubbed a monitor lizard.

And the rainy season had Changed into the winter of that year I was parted from my first love’ (Hla Pe 1971:102).

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