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......she began mumbling  holding  safyan, s portrait  speaking to him coaxing him to tell her if he was alive,  wildly  madly  asking his portrait  he had not broken his promise  , he was still  her companion for lifei   .n love  partners  pledge to be together for life  but man is powerless   before  the matters of life and death,  because  they are beyond  man,s control