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,.. both sisters needed to buy somethings for sadaf s marriage  , almas sent them with azma to the market,  , they returned home quite late,  Sabina had got all she wanted,  but samira returned empty handed,  , almas  became extremely angry,  ,what was to become of her , so much time  was wasted  and still  she didn't buy anything,   she scolded  azma, there were to be no more  rounds for shopping  for the rest of the month,  ,  samira argued it was not right, children were to prepare for their exams,   it would be better if they bought something  whether they liked it or not,  , almas  wanted to speak up but azma stopped her by holding her hand,  softly adding   girls in this age  behaved like this,  it was normal,  ,  but almas s point was not understood  by azma  and it was  the girl was to be  married