This story takes place at one of PNG's province called Oro Province. In one of the small villages where these events took place a long time ago. This is a true story.
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In a small village in Oro, there lived a married couple. The couple needed a hand in helping them build their house, fences for their livestock, and other work such as digging drains.
So the wife called his brother, who was from another village to come and help them out. Her brother came over and immediately started on helping them build fences to look after their pigs.
The wife would cook meals and give it to her husband to go give her brother so he would have food to fill his stomach.
However, the husband didn't do as he was instructed. He would take the food and go the the site where his brother-in-law would be working and eat in front of him whilst he worked.
The wife's brother being a man without complaint, never told his sister about him being mistreated. He simply drank water and continued to do his tasks.
One day, the wife's brother was so hungry and weak that when he went down to the river to drink some water, he died.
The villagers found out about the husband's I'll treatment to his brother-in-law, and they swore that whenever someone out of the village comes to their village, they would not hold back any food items from them.
To this day, it is something that they still practice, so that the tragedy of the past will never be repeated.
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