I agree my gift may not match yours but it will have my sincere love for you as my abbu," Gulnaz had collected her wits by now and was her usual confi...dent self. She turned around in her father's lap and held his face in her hands and kissed him.Abbas pondered for a while and then said, "Guloo beta you have yet not clarified enough for me to respond."Gulnaz took a deep breath. Her father could see the difficult struggle going on in his daughter's mind and his heart ached to hold her. He knew he. . he looked over to me and gave me a strange look. One with such intensity, I couldn't help but turn away. Just as I was making my way to the other side, I heard him speak."Hello."I froze where I stood. He could not be talking to me. The me who was staring at his body, most likely drooling. The me who probably made a complete fool out of myself..."Hello? I'm Dean. You are... ?"I glanced over my shoulder. He was right behind me. I turned to face him and managed to utter, "Renee. I ... I ... I'm. They had not been able to escape because they were shackled to the table by chains attached to leg cuffs. He scared them both even more by shooting off the lock on one girl's chain."Stand up," he ordered, motioning with his rifle.Very reluctantly the girl stood up and he noticed that she was actually wetting herself with terror."I won't hurt you if you behave," Jalal said, "Who are you?"The girl mumbled something he could not hear."Speak up," he said."I am Hala and this is my sister Fayruz,". Now I made the connection. I had been cashing checks at the bank branch near my office for several years now and the teller I usually preferred was this Tanisha! The second line was for "Patient's Spouse", the name there was "Leroy Williamson", sex was listed as "male" and his occupation was listed as "pool maintenance man"."Dr. Henderson", I began, "as much as I would like to see one of these treatments, I think I must inform you that I know Tanisha in another context. I am not sure it would.
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