I took a breath, and a second, and a third, as if I were shoving away the heaviness on my heart
“What brought you here, you bastard? Are they arresting people who write down their dreams now, too?
“There is no pleasure for me without sorrow,” I once told Adrian, my psychotherapist.
“Where are your papers? Where have you come from?"
Adel refused to clarify how a publication was determined to be deviating from social norms.
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