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ELITE
Vol.1

Issue 59

September
2023

As soon as he closed the door behind him, his Our problems are many.. I will not bother you
wife collapsed, his daughters cried, and his with them.. but my hope is that you do not
house became dark. leave our daughters a prey to poverty and
Then the laughter disappeared, and was need..
replaced by tears.. The smile disappeared, and As for Fajr, she wrote to him: Father, do you
was replaced by brokenness.. The joy was gone, remember the alarm clock that you brought for
and in its place was sadness.. me so that I could set it to the time of the dawn
Days passed, and the months were bleak, and prayer? You used to say that no one will wake
the wife fell into the clutches of many diseases.. me up but Fajr. Will your wife wake you up
Fajr was working day and night to complete now?
the preparation of her house.. Shorouk was My father, my income from my work is not
forced to work to help with the household enough to fulfil the arrangement that you
expenses.. Doha gave up taking her high school agreed upon with my fiancé’s father. My
lessons, and Asal left her school for a school engagement is at risk of being broken. Please
with lower fees. . help me.
One day, the mother and the girls agreed that And Shorouk wrote: My dear father... I remind
each of them would send a message on the you that when you realized my talent in
phone to the absent father, reminding him of a drawing... you brought me luxurious colours
beautiful memory, and informing him of one and asked me to draw a beautiful painting... so
problem she was facing...hoping that his heart I painted you... because you are the most
would soften.. beautiful thing in my life...
Asal began writing: My beloved father... Do Father, as you used to tell me what bothers
you remember the cartoon movie that you me... I have been forced to work in a field that
watched with me in the cinema last year... And is far from my interests, and my employer is
you told me at the time that you laughed from flirting with me... I am trying to stay away
the heart... as you had never laughed before... from him, but I am afraid of him... Maybe you
Now the second part has started showing... can talk to him so he can stop...
Will you not accompany me to watch it? As for his wife, she did not sleep that night. She
Dad... I'm facing a big problem... I can't solve was looking at her phone every moment, but he
many of the puzzles in the fun book you did not answer her. So she decided to overcome
brought me... her illness, return to her work, and take care of
The mother wrote: My beloved husband... I her daughters.
have spent all that was left of my parents’ Fajr woke up from her sleep and looked at her
inheritance... and sold all my jewellery... All phone.. but she did not find a response.. she
that remains is the chain you gave me when we went to wake her mother.. and found her in the
got married... I don’t want to give it up... as kitchen preparing the pancakes they loved..
your picture hangs on one side of it, and my -Mom, why did you leave your bed and go
15 picture on the other. against what your doctor said?

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