Thank you @mariannewest for another fabulous #freewrite challenge, today's prompt is a ridiculous amount of fun
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This is a standalone freewrite, but it does follow on from Elma (so if you missed it and want to read that click here)
Elma bought the basket from the old woman, despite her scepticism. It was cheap - the strange wooden money, heavy and worn, seemed to go a long way, here, but even so the basket was almost given away - and also it had a strange pattern woven into it that attracted Elma's eye. She couldn't stop looking at it.
The old woman tried to give Elma change - in dried beans - but she refused it with a shake of her head.
"You keep it," Elma said. The woman thanked her with a toothless grin. She waved her cane at Elma and said something in her language that Elma couldn't understand. A man standing next to her laughed. In halting English he translated for her.
"She say you will live long life," he said. "You love lots and you have ridiculous amount of fun." Elma smiled at the man and the old woman.
"Thank you," she said. "I hope I do."
The old man said something to the market seller and she shook her head.
"I try to buy same basket," he said. "But she say only one like yours. I make do with carrier bag."
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