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--she  was upset, she  heard  the  phone  ringing   unstoppably, she  was  a  stranger  and  an  outsider  she  could  not  answer  the  phone  no matter  how  disturbing  it  is, that  man  was  sitting  doing  yoga  meditation  for  over  half  hour  and  he  came  to  pick  yp  the  phone  before  which  he  asked  her  tauntingly  if she  was  deaf  , she  looked  at  him  and  her  eyes  flooded  with  tears,  he  gave  her  a  message  from rabah  , nishan  he  said  could  call  her  family  back  in pakistan  from there,, she  sat  upright  though  still  upset  and  confused  at  her  own  plight