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How does culture affect the way Gold Teeth deals with her husband’s illness in "My Aunt Gold Teeth"?

She consults the District Medical Officer at Chaguanas.

She follows tradition, enlisting a Brahmin faith healer who tells her spirits are to blame.

She relies on home remedies her mother suggests.

She worries that her Hindu prayers won’t be strong enough so she tries Christian prayers as well.