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...Charlie was  suffering from dyslexia,  , he had been a professional boxer for ten years  , head injuries and dyslexia  prevented him from  learning  reading  and writing skills,  it was difficult for him to  pay his bills and  he lost his hearing  too, , when his wife was alive  it wasn't  that hard,  but she died last year and Maryam came  back to live  in his neighborhood,  but Charlie didn't  doubt himself and  believed he could  do things  perfectly 

Hello  girls  , are you fighting  for me,  said Charlie  kissing one  on her cheek,  he sat down  next to her on a stool 

, no, Charlie,  we have decided to share you, and that's what we were  talking about,   she  affectionately  patted him on his shoulder,  ,

For next two hours she watched him doing exercises on the machines trying to find out more about him,  he had spent a hard life,  London builders and East end Street gang  defeated by him  he had injured a police man,  charged with  criminal charges he was sent to jail,   released some months later he  started boxing  and  ten years went by   , it proved a successful career,  , followed by reaching America with his family,    during  sizzling summers and  stormy  snows  he  hammered   metal nails on the  roofs , die hard but loveable   man she  understood  what must have really happened to  to his daughter   , though  just speculating  she still had not asked him anything till  she had  spent three weeks  as a friend 

By then  it had become  a national  headline  news , the district attorney  took up the case