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With some effort; I could’ve fallen in love with Hasan。 He was eight years

younger  than  my  missing  husband;  and  when  my  husband  was  at  home;

Hasan  was  like  my  little  brother;  and  this  sentiment  endeared  him  to  me。  I

liked  his  humble  and  passionate  demeanor;  his  pleasure  in  playing  with  my

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children and even the way he desirously looked at me as though he were dying

of thirst and I were a glass of cold sour…cherry sherbet。 On the other hand; I

also knew I’d really have to force myself to fall in love with a man who made

me wash clothes and didn’t mind my having to wander through markets and

bazaars  like  a  mon  slave。  During  those  days  when  I’d  go  to  my  father’s

house and cry endlessly as I stared at the pots; pans; bowls and cups; during

those  nights  when  the  children  and  I  would  sleep  cuddled  up  together  in

solidarity; Hasan never gave me cause for a change of heart。 He had no faith

that  I  could  love  him  or  that  this  essential  and  mandatory  precondition  for

our  marriage  would  manifest  itself;  and  because  he  had  no  confidence  in

himself; he acted inappropriately。 He tried to corner me; kiss me and fondle

me。 He declared that my husband would never return; that he would kill me。

He threatened me; cried like a baby and in his haste and fluster; never allowed

time for a true and noble love to be born。 I knew I could never wed him。

One night; when he tried to force the door of the room where I slept with

the children; I rose immediately; and without a thought that I might frighten

them; screamed at the top of my lungs that evil jinns had entered the house。

This  fit  of  jinn…panic  and  screaming  awakened  my  father…in…law  and  thereby

exposed Hasan; whose excited violence was still visible; to his father。 Amid my

ridiculous  howls  and  inane  rantings  about  jinns;  the  staid  old  man  to  his

embarrassment acknowledged the awful truth: His son was besotted and had

inappropriately approached his brother’s wife; a mother of two。 My father…in…

law made no reply when I said I wouldn’t sleep a wink till morning; keeping

watch  at  the  door  to  protect  my  children  against  “the  jinns。”  The  following

day; I announced that I’d be returning to my father’s home with my children

for  an  extended  stay  to  care  for  him  in  his  time  of  illness;  thus  did  Hasan

accept  his  defeat。  I  returned  to  my  father’s  house;  taking  with  me  as

mementos of my married life the clock with bells plundered from Hungarian

lands by my husband (who’d never succumbed to the temptation to sell it);

the  whip  made  from  the  sinews  of  the  most  explosive  of  Arab  steeds;  the

Tabriz…made ivory chess set whose pieces the children used to play war and the

silver  candlesticks  (booty  from  the  Battle  of  Nahjivan);  which  I’d  fought  so

desperately to keep when money was short。

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