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....this was a pleasant change  in nadim  s life,  , in the past he faced  many problems  but now  after  closing  the shop for the night he  counted the profit  of the day  he felt  renewed energy filling him, ,  he was happy with the business,  he  put in more hard work and  mind to his shop, , next one month  proved quite hectic and busy for him,, the previous customers became regular,  his timings were  from four afternoon to eleven midnight  to be in the shop,  he started taking interest in dealing with  customers  men and women,  , nadim was learning  new tricks  from his new life style,  , majid would  join him after five for an hour or so mainly to pass his time,   from majid learnt  new terms and names of things,  nadim  became  more    mentally close to najid,  both were now on informal  terms and shared and discussed their  personal matters with each other frankly,  it seemed  for nadim life was going smooth but it wasn't quite so, he was going through an invisible  phase of  mental  and personal  troubled phase in life,  he needed  some  romance and release,  he needed  to destress his routine,   and one day  he got a  chance to  get out of his boredom 

Don't you have sea green   perfume,  a woman  right before nadim asked him