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From The Desk Of The Editor ISSUE No. 1882
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Shahrazad, a traveler from Iran life in the United States. I called him
MANOUCHEHR WAS LOOKING FOR A one night. "why did you do that to
me?" I asked. "I worked hard in your
HUMOROUS SEDUCTIVE WOMAN! house all these years. I was by your
side at the time of hardship. Did I de-
serve to face such a betrayal?"
"I've the right to have a second wife.
I try to come to Iran for a couple of
want that nurse to see me with months a year."
him. Interestingly, every flower "No need. Let's get divorced and end
basket that friends and family it all."
brought to the hospital disap- Instead of answering, he hanged up
peared after a day. Once, I saw the phone. I was all about my daugh-
I have known Manouchehr the nurse putting two flower ter. When she asked about his father, I
since I was a teenager. Ma- baskets in her car. would say that he is in US for business
nouchehr lived in a prosperous Manouchehr was in good and would come back soon. Divorce
modern family in our neighbor- financial condition. He run him and build a new life for yourself,
hood. He really wanted me to ac- his father's two boutiques my father told me. you're still young
cept his invitation to the cinemas in Elizabeth Boulevard and and have the right to live a good life.
and discos that were still open at had a share of renting his Two years later, I found out that Ma-
that time, but I didn't accept and father's apartments. As a re- nouchehr has married to another
only had greetings and pleasantries sult, he had a lot of money woman. Two years later, a friend an-
to spend.
with him as before. It took a year for Ma- nounced that he has married for the
Manouchehr's mother loved me nouchehr to stand on his fourth time; this time with a woman
very much. She had told me many feet again. Then, he be- who also has divorced four times.
times that she wished she had a gan to talk about moving It was like I was standing far away,
daughter-in-law like me. When I to the United States. watching his chaotic life. I didn't want
finished high school, Manouchehr's "I can't be away from to disappoint my daughter from her
mother and her eldest daughter came my family." I told him. father's return by divorcing him.
to propose to me. Not in a traditional "Stay here." He said. I heard one of Manouchehr's wives
way, but in the form of an invitation to "I pay for your life ex- has escaped with his close friend.
dinner at a restaurant near home. Ev- penses. I have to look His other wife also had a husband in
erything went well in the first session. for a new business Romania. There was no news of Ma-
Six months later, we got engaged and in the US. I'll come nouchehr for a few years. During that
married a year later. back when things are time, good men proposed to me, but
Manouchehr wanted me to be like done." I told them I have a husband and re-
movie stars; Humorous, seductive, Six months later, jected their offer. Until one morning,
I found out that Manouchehr has suf-
always dancing. But I grew up with a Manouchehr left. A fered a drunken accident and has died
different upbringing. We had a baby few weeks later, his in the hospital. I cried for him for a
girl. I was trying to provide the most father died, but he week. For a man looking for a humor-
comfortable life for Manouchehr. did not return, be- ous seductive wife; For a man whose
Once he had an accident on Karaj cause he was busy. all his seductive wives betrayed him,
road and was not able to walk for Finally, when his stay took left him alone, cause him to lose his
more than a year. I took care of him t he a year, I called him. "what are you do- wealth, and embarrassed him in front
day and night. I would always cook safety of our own ing?" I said. of friends and family.
his favorite foods and take it to the home, I was as he wanted; I would get "I have launched a few businesses. I didn't know what to do with my life.
hospital. Sometimes his roommates naked and dance seductively for him, You have to wait for things to go suc- I didn't know what fate was expecting
also ordered food. but under the roof of our house with- cessfully." Then he added. "I'm send- me. Until one day a friend called form
With intensive care and boarding out the look of strangers. Sometimes ing money to you monthly, what else the US and said Manouchehr had left a
nursing, Manouchehr walked back I wanted to be a seductive character do you need?" package for me and his brother would
on his feet after about two years. He like those ladies, but I was embar- "I need you. My husband. My life bring it to Iran. I thanked him. Two
spent his first night with his friends rassed to do so. partner. I've been waiting for a year. weeks later, a gentleman brought the
and came home drunk at six in the In the fifth year of our marriage, when Neighbors have rumored that you ran package to my house, gave it to me,
morning. You have to be seductive Manouchehr went to the top of the away and married. They say you have and left. I went into the house with cu-
like other women, he said to me. roof to install the antenna, he fell up been forced to marry me. They say riosity and opened the package. There
Manouchehr's expectations of me, and broke his legs. I nursed him again you even have children in US." were several documents and a letter
given the type of family and cultural night and day. I would do whatever "Look, you're a good woman. A wom- inside. I read the letter:
education I grew up, did not fit my I could. Some nights, I didn't even an who only is good for the kitchen, a My kind wife, I searched the world
personality. In some parties, I would sleep until morning. For Manouchehr, woman who is good in hosting family and lived with a lot of seductive wom-
see some women jumping to the mid- all of this was my duty, and I deserved and friends. Just a good mother." en, but none had your knowledge, loy-
dle of the hall, dancing and attracting no thanks. Meanwhile, Manouchehr "That's it?" alty and pure love. I give you all I have
men's attention. Manouchehr would had fell in love with a seductive "I've never seen anything else from left, whatever I have in the US and in
always stare at them intensely. But young nurse. He kept telling me that you." Iran, all the cash and the properties I
despite Manouchehr's insistence, I it was better for me to be more careful Six months later, I found out that all have. I hope one day you'll be happy
was not willing to do so in front of the about our daughter and go to the hos- this time, he has been married to that with a man who deserves you.
crowd. Believe me that sometimes in pital less than before. I knew he didn't seductive sexy nurse and has a happy Translation: Massi Zokaei
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