Marriage imposed

ied. I'm only 17 and I need

ouse back so we won't be homeless. You know your father is accused of embezzlement and all the evidence i

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t stood there for a few second

.

my miserable life and the u

sudden

t give me an an

d if I

ly have a choice, darl

t love and who doesn't love me. Tomorrow I've decided to go and see my father in prison and expla

.

up at 5am like every day I

tine (I brush my teeth, was

ks have already set everything up so I eat when I finish I go off to do a bi

ady set up everything so I eat when I finish I go to do a little revision because with e

.

here are

t's it

d and his family, who'll be asking for

tc

e the livi

.

e prison. At the reception desk

ve come to s

okay, pleas

communicate there's a phone on the right I don't know you know what I mean but I'm no good at explanations so I settle down. A few minutes later he app

you ok? Plea

missed you so much, I'm ashamed to see

ng I know you're innocent. w

er, my trial's in a week, we

yesterday your friend Ahm

thing. He wants to give y

ad, what s

get our house back and help me rebuild my business but leyla

Ahmed's help, how lon

id I could get 25

ace for more than 25 years. It's all on my shoulders. It'

d, I'l

l obliged, it's the rest of

ad I know

roud of you,

d on the glass,

asting your life you sacrificed yourself for us your mother must be proud of you. from up there she watches over you she kn

Time

unceasingly d

ve you t

d disappears

.

r let anyone step on her toes, the leyla who was always smiling? She gave way to a weak leyla, a leyla who spends all her time crying. I've become a shadow of my former self, I've become weak, very

p to mimic the damage.

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r opens

ling and his f

ou're funn

rother, and the whole family (Uncle Ahmed, Tanti Mariam, Issa, Mohamed and Safia). I kiss Uncle Ahmed, Issa and M

ere is to ask for your daughter Ley

contin