You feel well, Ali? You have a very faraway look on your face, beta, ' my dad said. 'Like you have left your heart behind.' He fixed me with eyes as liquid black as mine and for a moment I felt exposed, like he could see right through me. That irrational childhood thought that he could read my mind maybe.' What nonsense, his heart is here with his mother and his family. Tell him, Ali, ' my mother said.' Begum, this generation of boys and girls, you know how they are.' My dad never said my mother's name; she was always Begum, the generic term for 'wife'. . Ruth Ahmed
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You feel well , Ali ? You have a very faraway look on your face, beta , my dad said. 'Like you have left your heart behind.' He fixed me with eyes as liquid black as mine and for a moment I felt exposed, like he could see right through me. That irrational childhood thought that he could read my mind maybe. 'What nonsense, his heart is here with his mother and his family .

Tell him, Ali .'My mother said. 'Begum, this generation of boys and girls, you know how they are.' My father never said my mother's name; she was always Begum, the generic term for 'wife'.

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