Cruel emotion

to be past the diamond years of her twenties. Hanan is enthusiastic and intelligent

able meeting, and I only have to reach Hanan's university and stand at

ours of boredom, entering the data of widows and orphans and d

ses the request along to his assistant, secretary, and so on, until the requester gives up and returns exhausted, cursing the routine and t

e is coming towards me to salute her. She points to her comrades

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shrimp sandwich and the most expensive ingr

andle the payment. I did not protest when Hanan paid for our supper, even as a courtesy or to show my m

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your sibling, a

with my colleagues. W

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said, with a sly smile and

waiter laid a sheet of hard plastic to carry our sandwiches, she gives m

overburdened with work that I didn't even have to complete. However, I do them in exchange fo

father's death, he gave me an apartment and a

o works as a police officer, and her noisy mother. I admit that I'm bored and am awar

he dream I am searching for but cannot find because I am unaware of it. I only recently received my degree from the Faculty of

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thing to be

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have an

nguage course, and then I'll sugge

suggest me to your fath

ing too much and no

far too r

ng at least one o

w. Such opportunities like the one she gave me, only come a

ed, leaving me with happy dreams. She promi

e billiards table owned by my buddy "Atef Abdo". The billiards table was located i

and electronic games, but he couldn't afford a PlayStation, and the billiards table was too ex

Gad", and my beloved's name is "Hanan Al-Fayyad". "Hanan Adel Fayyad Fakher

hen "Hanan" phoned, our landline phone jumped for delight. I ran to the phone as my mother stared

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think of anything to say, but she produced the most wonderf

miss me before getting