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At that point, I had stopped smoking my cigarette and was smoking a pipe. She smiled and spoke: \u201cNow you are smoking a hukki.\u201d On hearing her say \u201chukki\u201d\u2014a small version of a \u201chukka\u201d\u2014I chuckled, and she opened up a bit and laughed. Shoki had placed his pawn before me, as the saying goes, and now I had to evade it for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n

She slowly started to speak. The heaviness of her tearful voice filled the room. It was like this every time, like some scene in a play\u2014two hours long \u2014as if this were some kind of performance, not real life. But no, it was all true\u2014it was just that, after being repeated so many times, it seemed like an act.<\/p>\n

The same characters, and the same lines. Fifteen years had passed like this. Bit by bit, her grief created a bond between us. I began to listen to her intently, even though I had heard this story a thousand times before. But this time, it seemed as if her voice was coming from far off. \u201cIn the end, some day he will be back. He told me he would in his last letter.<\/p>\n

Now, there aren\u2019t any more letters coming. So many years have passed with no word. He\u2019ll come back, won\u2019t he? You said so, so why not? It\u2019s been so many years since I have seen him.\u201d Sobbing in fits and starts, she fell silent. In truth, I had no answer for her. I was so surprised the first time she came to see me. How had she found her way to my home? I had come back from abroad so many years before.<\/p>\n

Forgetting everything, I completed my studies, got a job, and got married. Everything that had transpired there was like a bad dream, something that I did not want to remember. But she called all of that back to mind. At first, I thought that she had come to ask for money.<\/p>\n

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McCutcheon | Grieving for Pigeons \u2022 Zubair Ahmad, translated by Anne Murphy OceanofPDF.com R E V I S E D E D I T I O N T W E L V E S T O R I E S o f L A H O R E GRIEVING FOR PIGEONS Z U B A I R A H M A D Translated by Anne Murphy OceanofPDF.com Translations copyright \u00a9 2024 Anne Murphy Published by AU Press, Athabasca University 1 University Drive, Athabasca, Alberta T9S 3A3 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15215\/aupress\/9781771994316.01 Cover images \u00a9 kkgas \/ Stocksy and The Advertising Archives \/ Alamy Stock Photo Cover and interior design by Natalie Olsen, kisscutdesign.com Printed and bound in Canada Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Grieving for pigeons : twelve stories of Lahore \/ Zubair Ahmad ; translated by Anne Murphy.<\/p>\n

Other titles: Kabootar banerey te galian. English Names: Ahmad, Zubair, author. | Murphy, Anne, 1967\u2013 translator. Series: Mingling voices. Description: Revised edition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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