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Contradictions. In the morning though she

seemed as if she had had enough of talking. She

ignored my question with an inaudible mumble,

and then walked to the shower, sipping the rest

of a bottle of beer as she walked in. I soon

followed her into the shower to just see how she

is. I stood and watched the water caressing her

skin, her curvaceous buttocks, her crevices for

what seemed a moment, but it may have been

minutes, before she turned and noticed me

standing at the doorway. She asked if I wanted

fellatio, just as the noise for morning prayers

sounded. I said I was fine. As she was leaving I

said goodbye, and I saw a tear in her eye, so I

then tried to stop her but before I could, she was

gone in a hurry after leaving me with the

affirmation that I didn’t truly care. And the

thought that life, regardless of the choice to live

it or not, required essential elements: such as

focus, attention and care. And I was becoming

more aware of this truth. With no answer on the

phone, later on in the morning I thought I would

look for her, but I ended up changing my mind.

After she had left I kept thinking of, firstly those

eggs (the experience), and then her brother: I

retold the story of him losing his arm to myself,

and the part which confused me most was the

relationship between Ahmed and a man she only

referred to as G. Apparently, G had befriended

Ahmed at an awkward time in life—he was

around seventeen at the time and their Father

had just died in a very dubious fashion I couldn’t

quite fully gather: My mom wouldn’t cook meat

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