This would not have been my condition if I had a brother since he would have shared part of her insanity with me. We would have both complained to each other, and we would have supported one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He kept wishing, dreaming, spending his nights imagining, contemplating, in many details, what ifs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No close friends, except for one friend he sees every few months, during their routine visits to Turkey, Fouad’s maternal uncle’s daughter, Nubia, two years his junior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her father is struggling to make a respectable living in a foreign country; his tour company is failing, and he hardly has enough money for his daily sustenance. Of course, Alara is not sparing with him since he is the closest to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His wife died, and he refused to marry after her, not yet, it is still early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alara tried a lot with him. “Think about marriage, Fouad. Nubia needs someone to replace her mother, and you need a wife as well”, but he rejects the idea. He has not yet overcome the shock of losing his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At least for Marwan, every year there are four routine breaks of torment, scheduled in advance, to which they are accustomed, each lasting a week or two at most, between the father\u2019s visit to them, their visit to him, and their meeting all in Turkey to visit Fouad and Nubia, mostly twice per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the humiliation, torment, pain, madness, confusion, and all the many faces around him, the boy has a fighting spirit, something that pushes him to rebel, a hope he refuses to give up, not satisfied with this situation, words he repeated, a promise he always reminded himself of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-I’ll be freed from my mother’s agony, and then I’ll be delivered from all challenges. Lonesome in the mayhem I live, alone I may die in the midst of it, yet, I will write about the time in between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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