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Branden's family was very poor. Even his best clothes were patched. He couldn't find anything better than chocolate to pay back that girl. But he knew that girl's name was Winnie.

He wasn't that literate, so he had always thought that she was called Willa.

Willa.

Willa.

He muttered to himself, 'It seemed like a boy's name.' He thought that her parents were very cultured to name their daughter Willa. His parents named him after the owners of the grocery store and clothing shop in town. The owners used their own names as the names of the shops. Branden's father also wanted to be a boss like them, so he combined the names of the two bosses together and named him Branden.