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1. When you suddenly see cartons of juice and you know visitors are coming.
2. When your mother starts bringing out food you’ve never seen in the house before.
3. When you touch something in the fridge and hear “IT’S FOR THE GUESTS!”
4. When your mother wakes you up to clean your room before the visitors come.
5. Your mother, bringing out the special cutlery reserved for only visitors:
6. When you hear the visitors arrive and you pretend to be asleep so you don’t have to go and greet.
7. When your parents want you to still dress properly just to come outside and greet.
8. You and your siblings, greeting them in the presence of your parents:
9. How your parents see you as soon as the visitors enter the house:
10. Your parents face, when you linger in the parlour a little too long:
11. When your parents that just finished insulting you start praising you in front of their visitors.
12. How your mother looks at you when the visitor offers you out of their food:
13. You, waiting in your room for the visitors to leave your house.
14. When the visitors come with their children and you have to entertain them.
15. When your parents start acting fake nice to you in their visitor’s presence.
16. When the visitors are about to wash their own dishes and your mother tells them to leave it for you.
17. How you feel when they finally leave:
18. When your mother decides to “help you keep” the money they dashed you.
