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A chilly Sunday morning, my window presented a magnificent view. The snow covered the whole backyard and reflected back the weak, wintry sunlight.i was sitting in my creaky old chair trying to solve a math’s algebraic question. My mind was in a total confusion as I had no idea of solving the equation. Dancing the pen in my hand I thought harder and harder about the question that was sitting in front of me, waiting to be untangled. It was like a detective story, were the situation has come to the top climax, and solution for who have done it was unknown. My pressure stared increasing; the pen was slipping through my fingers due to the gallon’s of sweat emerging from my palms. My mind was like a tangled knot, where the method to solving the equation was trapped in a cage.

I was thinking hard on how to solve the endless equation, when Mum stormed into my room. The next moment, I could only hear her screaming, "Can you pass by something without breaking it? You are so CLUMSY!" that sounded so terrible.
“GROUNDED!” I was grounded, I was ordered to stay in my room for six days without any T.V. or Internet. Hearing this unpleasant incident I was dumbfounded, I was mystified confused bewildered. I asked Mum what was my mistake. She shot back,"As usual, your brother told me that you toppled the ancestral vase and broke it in to pieces. Do you have any idea that it has been in our family for generations? Made in Persia for the royal family, there is nothing like it in the world."
I was about to defend myself, but Mum left the room without listening to an innocent prisoner 's plea for mercy. It was utter nonsense, there was no connection. Me! Breaking a vase! When was the last time I broke a vase in this house, user I many be clumsy but I knew the wrong that I had done. And this one was not an act of me.I

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