"It was a traditional Botswana basket, with a design worked into the weaving.
“These little marks here are tears,” she said. “The giraffe gives its tears to the women and they weave them into the basket.”…”You are very kind, Mma”, she said. “But why did the giraffe give its tears?”
Mma Ramotswe shrugged; she had never thought about it. “I suppose that it means that we can all give something,” she said. A giraffe has nothing else to give—only tears."
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