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then go out with Emile. I was so fed up with life, living with secrecy and lies and missed appointments, and anyway, the only way he slept with me was the way I told you about. I got back together with Emile. I won’t tell you how it went when we talked. He said that he felt guilty, and so on and so on, and that he was going to bring his mother and we’d get officially engaged. I didn’t tell Dr. Said about Emile, so I don’t know how he knew. I guess I told him Emile called, but I didn’t tell him I went to the movies with him and that we slept together.”
    â€œYou slept with him?” asked Yalo.
    â€œWhat’s wrong with that, when he’s going to be my fiancé?”
    â€œYou mean you were sleeping with two men at the same time?”
    Shirin did not reply. She hung her head and said nothing.
    â€œWhy so quiet?”
    She said that she no longer understood him. He had taken her and raped her and was now stalking her on the phone, and demanding to meet with her in cafés, waiting for her in front of her home and her job, robbing her, threatening her, and now here he was lecturing her on morality because she had slept with two men.
    â€œWhat about you – how many women have you slept with in the forest?”
    â€œNo, I’m not like that.”
    â€œWhat are you? Who are you? I swear to God, I have no idea why I got mixed up with you.”
    â€œSo, what?” asked Yalo.
    â€œSo what, what?” asked Shirin.
    â€œYou told him about Emile, and then what?”
    â€œOh! You’re asking me about the doctor.”
    She said she was very surprised when she saw Dr. Said’s reaction. When he asked her about Emile, Shirin decided that the time had come to tell him the truth. When he heard that they had gone to see the movie Scarface , that they went to an Italian restaurant afterwards, and that they then spent the night in his apartment, he did not get angry and throw her out of the clinic as she thought he would. He began to bite his fingernails uncontrollably, and then he came closer to her and grasped her breasts.
    â€œNo, no,” she said. “I don’t want this.”
    â€œI know what you want,” he answered, as he began tearing at her clothes and leading her to his couch. She took off all her clothes and helped him take off his, and Hell commenced.
    Shirin said that she didn’t know what happened, whether he slept with her or not. She said that he had an erection, and that she held it, and thathe entered her, but she did not know, perhaps he ejaculated quickly, but there was no sign, so perhaps he had suddenly gone soft and claimed he had finished, and began to try again. He was up against her the whole time, as if he were sleeping with her, but he did not . . . then he said he wasn’t able to, because she had castrated him. “You are a woman who castrates men.”
    Shirin looked at Yalo and asked him, “What do you think?”
    Yalo said that he did not understand exactly what happened.
    â€œNeither do I,” said Shirin.
    â€œGod doesn’t test us,” laughed Yalo.
    â€œSo it’s true that I’m a castrator?” asked Shirin.
    â€œWith other guys I don’t know, but with me, I’d be glad to prove that you’re not, right now.”
    â€œThat’s all you ever think about!”
    â€œWhat do you want me to think about?” said Yalo, sipping from his glass of arak.
    Shirin went back to her story, saying that the doctor got up then, put his clothes on, and left, leaving her alone in the clinic.
    â€œI dressed quickly, without washing. I was afraid he had locked the door and left me stranded there, but when I tried the door it opened. I got myself out of there and went home, and that’s it.”
    â€œThat’s it?”
    â€œWell, then there was the whole story in Ballouna. He begged me, and I went out with him in his car. And you know the rest.”
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