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When the spring finally broke, the villagers expected to find Yusuf’s hut empty. Instead, they found him sitting by his olive trees. They were small, but they were green. He was thinner, perhaps, but his back was as straight as a cedar tree.
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: Maintaining one's principles even in the face of poverty or hardship. He was thinner, perhaps, but his back was
"The one who gives me my breath also gives me my bread," Yusuf said. "He is the only one to whom I owe my life. To a human, I feel no obligation. Rızkımı veren Hüda’dır, kula minnet eylemem. My sustenance is from God; I shall not bow to a man."
Yusuf was an old man who lived on the rocky edge of the village, where the soil was thin and the water was scarce. He spent his days carving stone and tending to a small, stubborn olive grove. He never came to the Bey’s feasts, and he never asked for a loan during the frost.
