Sacrifice

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Our marriage has been almost four months. Iqbal wants to go to Jakarta for gaining money. Before that, he has ever gone to Jakarta in 19 years old after graduating his senior high school. He wants to get a better life and reach a good fortune in the city.

At that time, he went to Jakarta lonely. There was no family there. He just bought the address of his old uncle and came by bus. He stayed there for about three months because he has got a job and rented a room for himself with his own money.

In Jakarta, he became a Repairman. He worked in a garage to repair a vehicles. He joined with his friend and got a salary just ten thousand rupiahs per month. It was a big salary. He used it to pay his rented room, eating for a month and portage. He has been there for about six months and back to the village because there is a news about his father has passed away. No longer after that, he stayed at the village until now.

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