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THE WEDDING OF ZEINA
'I was fifteen,' Zeina began. 'He was nineteen and already doing well.
He was a tailor like his father and worked with him. One day my grandmother came and called me. She took me to one side and said,
' "Zeina, you're going to marry Sobhi"
' "But, Setti, how do I marry him ?" I asked.
' He was my cousin : the son of my dead mother's sister, but I knew nothing of marriage.
' "You'll be his wife and he'll be your husband and you'll serve him and do what he tells you."
'I started to cry.
' "Will I have to leave you, Setti ?"
'The old woman took me in her arms :
' "No, no, you'll have your own room in the house and I'll always be with you. You're a big girl now. You can cook and clean and look after a man and he's your cousin, child, he's not a stranger."
'Well...I went out to the other girls in the yard but my heart was full of my new importance. I didn'nt say anything but in a few hours everyone knew anyway and Sobhi stopped coming to our part of the house. From the time Setti told me, I only saw him again on the wedding night'.
The sound of a bicycle bell rang through the darkness and Zeina refolded her legs and settled more comfortably against the balustrade.
'My bridal box had been ready for years and my uncle arranged for the painters to come and decorate a room on the roof of the house. It had a little bathroom next to it with a toilet, a basin and a shower and I was to cook in the big kitchen downstairs with my grandmother and aunt. They painted the room a very pretty pink and we put in a red rug and a bed and a cupboard and a chair and a little mirror'.]
'Afterwards Setti explained that he was my husband and any time he wanted to do anything to me I must let him and not fight him. But I did,'
Zeina said, laughing. 'I fought him everytime for a month, but in the end he mastered me'.
Ahdaf Souief, Aisha,1983

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