PART 34
In spite of the seriousness of the situation we were in, when I heard Shahid's last sentence; especially when hearing his friendship offering to a girl, asking her out, expressed with the word "procedure", I was about to lose control and burst into a terribly loud laugh. Thank goodness that Aida made it right on time and began to clear the empty food plates from our table. Shahid's stopping with his talk until she moved away from us, as if the waitress knew Turkish, looked rather strange to me. My friend's excitement was clearly understood both from the turning of his face pinker and from his trembling voice:
- I can't remember how many thousands of times I have pronounced her name to myself, my friend. But now I'm about to share this private secret with someone for the first time... When you learn who she is, I think you'll justify me too. After knowing her, is it possible for a person to continue acting within his old limits my dear friend! Here you see me... All my behaving and thinking patterns have been smashed... But believe me that I'm not complaining about the situation I'm in right now. This... I don't know how to say this... is an unbelievable experience! Would you believe me, if I say that I don't have any experiment stacked in my experience store after so many years of living in so many different places, that is so different, so influential, so taking me from myself and turning me to something else?
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