Profound Sadness

Achelois:

Two years ago I met a beautiful Algerian woman whom I befriended quite easily. She is very sweet and friendly and since opposites attract it wasn’t difficult for a loner like me to find a friend in her.

When we met she told me that when she moved to this country to work she received a lot of proposals from local men wanting to marry her but she refused them because she “didn’t want to be someone’s second or third wife!” She laughed heartily when she told me this scrunching her nose and eyes. But finally she met a local man with whom she fell in love. They married about a year ago and my friend is now pregnant.

The heartlessness that follows has no fix.