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-then  basid  kamal  handed  a  packet  to  nishan  , she  saw  it  held  the  sari  she  had  admired  at  rabah  and  thought  of  buying  it  later  sometime, he  wanted  her  to  accept  it  as  a  return  gift  , she  had  given him a  birthday  gift though it  was  not  her  birthday  that  day  but  when she  would  celebrate  hers  she  might  be  somewhere  else  away  from him, perhaps  with  her  husband  or  amma  bi  in pakistan  , then  she  must  not  feel  he  had  forgotten  to  gift  her  a  birthday  present, suddenly  she  saw  another  side   of  his  character  and  for  the  first  time  she  liked  him for  his  warmth