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The North!

My wishing that I had sat on the back seat instead of Moin or Massoud reminds me that I have not changed at all since childhood. I used to quarrel with Samaneh over the back seat of Dad’s Paykan. But then Samaneh had to sit on front seat of Amir’s car on her wedding night and I wondered how bully Amir had been to convince her to sit there. When I was younger I used to equate two people’s marriage with leaving their little brother all alone. Now it has another meaning as well. It means that two people are trying to escape loneliness. Mssound’s face in the side mirror yells that he is awfully feeling lonely and would just die if Farhad does not take us to the north by night. I swallow my laughter up and wink at him meaning that I am sorry I read your mind on your jaded face. The corner of his lips where the upper and lower lips come together is shaking as if a spring were in there; he turns his face quickly and sits still. People get married because they don’t want to be lonely, but after a while when they find out that they cannot have a baby, they forget all about it and start to imagine themselves as the loneliest couple on the earth - much like Amir and Samaneh who have lived seven lonely years together. I hope that Massoud would realize this soon and regret his not getting married on its proper time immediately after he got his medical degree.

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The Lonelies / Page 131 

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Author:            Mahdi Sharifi (1988 - )
Publisher:        Cheshmeh Publications
Release Date:  2011
ISBN: ‏‫‭ ‏‫‭            978-964-362-914-4
Language:        Persian
Genre:              Fiction
Category:         Iranian short stories
                        155 pages

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