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A Brief Comment on Difficulty with One Heart
Nicholas 2022-12-21 03:26:34
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Tala: When I was 18, I fell madly in love with a girl my first year at college in New York. She was an American. We spent three wonderful months together. I never knew I could feel so... complete. So alive.
Leyla: Til now, obviously.
Tala: Til now.
Leyla: So, what happened?
Tala: I broke it off. I ended it.
Leyla: Why?
Tala: I was in pieces. I told myself that it was for the best. I was away from home, I was lonely, and...
Leyla: And?
Tala: This is not a way to live, Leyla. It's not easy. It's not acceptable.
Leyla: We didn't break any rules last night, Tala.
Tala: But we did where I come from. People in the Middle East do not live like this. At least not openly.
Leyla: And now, you're in England. Now, you live in the west.
Tala: But I don't think that in any society of cheating on one's fiancee with someone else is acceptable.
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[after Tala and Leyla had sex for the first time]
Tala: What are you thinking about?
Leyla: Why I didn't meet you years ago.
Tala: We would have been underage then.