![]() She had the baby, gave it to her mother to look after and went back to work. She went as a waitress-cum-cashier, but when she realised that she was pregnant by her worthless, estranged husband, things had to change. However, the only way she knew was to go to work in her cousin’s bar in Pattaya. Lek was twenty and she was the only one who could prevent foreclosure. One day a catastrophe occurred out of the blue – her father died young and with huge debts that the family knew nothing about. Typically that would be: work in the fields for a few years have a few babies give them to mum to take care of and back to work until her kids had their own children and she could stop working to take care of them. She did not expect to do anything any different from the other girls in her class in the northern rice belt of Thailand. ![]() ![]() Lek was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family. ![]()
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