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“Someone once told him that according to palmistry the lines on your left hand represent the destiny you were born with and the lines on your right the destiny you make for yourself. It had since pleased him to note the wide divergence of the two.”

“‘We’ll always have each other’ when Isma had never been always; always stretched both forward and back, womb to tomb, always was only Parvaiz.”

For girls, becoming women was inevitability; for boys, becoming men was ambition.