The following weekend, Margaret returned to her childhood home with her husband. The house had remained untouched for years, and dust covered nearly every surface. She searched the bedroom where her grandmother had spent her final years. Inside an old drawer, beneath faded photographs and handwritten recipes, she finally discovered a small leather notebook. Its pages were yellow, but the handwriting remained surprisingly clear. Margaret turned carefully through the entries until she found a heading that made her heart race: Nighttime Leg Cramps.
The entry described how her grandmother had heard about placing soap beneath bedsheets from an older relative. She had tried it herself and recorded her experiences. But the final paragraph contained a surprising detail. Her grandmother had also written about another person who desperately needed the remedy, someone Margaret knew very well.
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