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16.) “It’s not so much what he says, the blatant lies, the contrived empathy, or even the fact that he has not raised a hand to her, Mariam, since he had dug the girl out from under those bricks. It is the staged delivery. Like a performance. An attempt on his part, both sly and pathetic, to impress. To charm. And suddenly, Mariam knows that her suspicions are right. She understands with a dread that is a blinding whack to the side of her head that what she is witnessing is nothing less than a courtship.”
(pg. 191; This shows the moment Mariam realizes that Rasheed is trying to win Laila’s hand in marriage.)...........

.............27.) “But the naming game involves only male names, because if it’s a girl, Laila has already named her.”
(pg. 367; This is the last sentence of the novel and shows that Laila is pregnant and will name a girl child Mariam in honor of the woman who had come to mean so much to her.)

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