So Long a Letter
What is the response to the taking down of the hair by each wife?
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The in-laws judge that the wives are both equally good, and the narrator is bitter, as though thirty years of marriage equaled five that Modou was married to the second wife, as though twelve children equaled three. The co-wife's mother is happy that her daughter, the second wife, is considered an equal to Modou's older wife.