My brother Key gave us, the three sisters, the subuh-supi’e-still-waking-up kind of teka-teki last weekend after the family sahur kat kampung:
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Mary’s father had four daughters; Nana, Nini and Nunu.
What’s the name of the fourth daughter?
We went very quiet, trying to give Key the most intelligent answer. It had to do with the sound of the other names. There’s NANA, NINI and NUNU. So the 4th has got to have two repetitive ‘N’ plus a vowel syllables. Must! Or so we thought. So we tried the other two missing vowels: NENE or NONO.
When Key gave us the correct answer, us…three sisters went rolling on the comforters in the living room that dawn like popia gorengs my lil sis made for berbuka the evening before! Rolling-ly laughing almost turning blue and black trying to catch our breath. Boy! Us, silly girls di pagi hari.
The answer was in the clue, obviously.
Poor forgotten Mary!


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