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Torture Them, Lose Them

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I was on a phone call with my cousin. She was telling me about her year-and-a-half-year-old daughter who was unwell. She had fever. They had gone to a pediatrician who recommended her medicinal syrup. My cousin was frustrated that her daughter had started spitting out the medicine as soon as she gave it to her. It was a difficult situation. I visited this cousin a couple of days later. As we chatted, her daughter played at the other end of the room. Later my cousin interrupted our conversation to give her daughter the medicine. She was tense about what would happen. She walked into the kitchen quietly, came back with a teaspoon and headed to the medicine shelf. Her daughter started cry as she picked up the medicine bottle. And then, I saw an unexpected scene play out before my eyes. As my tensed cousin started pouring the medicine into the spoon, her daughter started to retch. She was about to throw up. Frustrated, my cousin poured the medicine back into the bottle. Her daughter also s...