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“Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that,
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There is only one, only one skill a woman like you and me needs in life, and they don’t teach it in school. Look at me.� “You should not speak like this to her, my child,� Mullah Faizullah said. “Look at me.� Mariam did. “Only one skill. And it’s this: tahamul. Endure.� “Endure what, Nana?� “Oh, don’t you fret about that,� Nana said. “There won’t be any shortage of things.�
“I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.�
Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk. So it does.�
