she screamed out loud and collapsed on the floor like a shattered porcelain vase.
Her face buried in her hands. Love is a strange thing. It takes you by surprise.
It’s half past three in the morning when a nurse comes to get her. She has refused to leave the waiting room.
Her hair is one big mess, her eyes bloodshot and caked with streams of dried tears and mascara.
When she steps into the little room at the end of the corridor she looks so weak at first
that a nurse rushes forward to stop the pregnant woman crumbling to pieces as she crosses the threshold.
Parvaneh supports herself against the doorframe, takes a deep breath,
smiles an infinitely faint smile at the nurse, and assures her that she’s “okay.”
She takes a step into the room and remains there for a second,
as if for the first time that night she can take in the full enormity of what has happened.
Then she goes up to the bed and stands next to it with fresh tears in her eyes.
With both palms she starts thumping Ove’s arm. “You’re not dying on me, Ove,” she weeps.
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