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-fatma  was  fast  asleep and  her  sleep  got  disturbed  by  the  moving  sounds  of  her  husband"s  steps, he  was  in pain, he  could  not  tolerate  the  pain in his  stomach  and  fatma  tried  to  her  best  by  giving  him some  herbal boiled  water  but  it  would  not  help, this  was  the  night  he  died   of  sheer,   pain
-soon  husna  had  to  return  to  her   husband"s  house, she  came  in a  state  of  shock  and  she  went  back  in the  same  state  of  shock, she  was  also  sorry  that  her  elder  brother  could  not  reach  for  their  father"s funeral, coming  days  were  even  getting  worse
-fatma  could  not  go  out  of  her  house  in mourning  for  the  next  four  and  half  months,  every  time  husna  visited  she  looked  thinner  and  thinner , sadder  and  sadder, she  never  explained  what  was   troubling her