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...mahin  belonged to a most respected family,  she gets married to her tai s son  for love when she was  a student,  for this  unacceptable crime her parents  cut off their ties with her, ,her husband dies, she is forced to lead  a  life full of hardships  with her daughter,  during  her holidays she goes shopping in the valley,  herATM card gets blocked,  her heavy baggage  is difficult to manage and a young man offers to help her, 

He laughed at mahin for gaping at him in sheer surprise,  he trues to make her feel  better,  embarrassed she starts walking away,  he follows her introducing himself as being    a senior class student  where she had joined as a junior  class teacher, his name was Yusuf  sayyad, he reminded her it was her first day at school  , during the  break she was sitting with social studies teacher mem khan  when he happened to spot her for first time 

Mahin s pace increased  with it for it was a long time ago  event, he described her she was clad in navy blue  shirt and gray trousers,  now her step faltered,  she turned to look at him he grinned delightfully,  he added that wasn't all  there was more  of her he remembered  , no need for her to be so surprised,  she said she didn't remember him as her student  in the junior school,  since then she was  teaching in  the same  junior section  , how was it possible he could know  so much about her,  she kept on walking  on the  rough  road up and and down   in the valley,  he laughed again,   he had  taken one lesson from her,  she scowled  it was impossible 

He explained it was  an hour long lecture  , he completed his  statement  by saying it was their sports  hour  and the sports teacher that day was  on leave,  her period was free,  she was  in the  ground   relaxing  in the sun on a bench,  she was sent for by the house master,  zulfar was their class prefect  , sge shook her head denying it because she had no interest and knowledge of sports