Ten years, Wafa! To say that you have been gone from us for ten years makes the number ten sound scarier than just one more than nine. May be because it's now in two-digits...
This year, we are on the eighteenth fast of Ramadan this day. Though I'm living in a land where it rarely ever rains, I'm told that it's pouring down back home. Like it was ten years ago, on that day that is etched in my memory like no other, every single detail still vivid, as if it was only yesterday that I stared at the rain and wondered whether the earth was weeping for my loss along with me...
PS: I never thought that I'll last this long after you. I thought I'll die of heart ache within a year or two. But you have taught me how to live with pain... Yeah, I know it sounds like something from "The Fault in Our Stars". I don't remember the exact quote.
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Dear Wafa...
Non-FictionMy letters to my best friend whom I lost to cancer when we were thirteen. #3 in Non-fiction as on 25 July 2016
