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.....doctor shehzad was awake for more than thirty hours now,  his life was  lying in bed before him unconscious,  he had married naushba  because he was in love with her, her parents had migrated  to China  when she was an infant,  theirs were  a family of wealthy merchants,  the doctor was now all alone  because  of her  deteriorating condition,  last night ge felt she had a fever  that worsened in the morning,  all the tests were done  but the reports were still not  come and now there was no need also for the reports,  he touched her forehead and she half opened her eyes,  hus touch briefly helped her regain her consciousness,  she smiled,  he could not  let her die, she must live,  at any cost,  she was his life