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B 16: Object: dish with lid

B 16: Object: dish with lid

My mother had this dish - filled with halva - from her mother. In this way my grandmother expressed the wish that her daughter's mouth should always be sweet and kept free of bitterness. Since my mother died young, this dish came to me empty.

Mükerrem G., born 1965, from Ankara, Turkey