Jack Weatherford

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It's hard to even imagine what it was like for this 16-year-old boy who has suffered these indignities of life in every way that you can imagine.

And suddenly here is the love of his life

who's gonna be living with him, making him happy.

He has somebody who loves him.

It's not just his mother running around getting food and trying to feed the five children and plus the other wife and her two children.

No, he has somebody who loves him.

And it's all the excitement that you can imagine with the fire in the eyes and the excitement.

And then it only lasts a few months.

And so there they are.

And there's a lady visiting them.

We don't know exactly who she is, but just they called her Grandmother Kowakchin.

Granny Kowakchin is there.

Granny Kowakchin is sleeping, of course, on the floor of the ger, the tent.

And early in the morning, she feels the vibrations in the earth.

And she knows that horsemen are coming.

She rouses the family.

And Mother Erlun is in charge.

Mother Erlun is still in charge, even though Temüjin is now married.

She puts all of her children on a horse.