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13 Aida
AidaAidaThe conversation she had with her granddaughter the night before did not go well. When Lejla arrived home, wearing something that Aida never would have let her out of the house in, she simply couldn’t hold back any longer.
She scolded her, in front of her grandfather, thus publicly shaming her, and this was most likely Aida’s first mistake. Such an approach worked wonders with Aida and her peers when they were children themselves, but it seems to have lost its intended effect on her granddaughter’s generation.
“Twelve years old,” Aida said, speaking intentionally in Bosnian. “Look at you. Parading around in something too short to be called shorts,” she huffed, yanking on the jean fabric, “and what is this?”
“A top,” Lejla hisses. “A top just like every other twelv
