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The Weight of Not Losing Again - Chapter Forty-When Strength Failed Them Both (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1606453185-the-weight-of-not-losing-again-chapter-forty-when?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=goarwago Adnan agrees to marriage under one condition - no children. Preferably, a woman who can never have them. Saba is forty. Educated. Independent. Quietly resilient. After six years of marriage marked by infertility and three miscarriages, she was divorced and returned to her parents' home carrying grief no one could see. When her aging father worries about her future, she agrees to marry again - not out of hope, but out of resolve. Their union is arranged, practical, and deeply uncomfortable. Both come from modern, well-educated Pakistani families. Both have careers - Adnan runs his family's real estate business; Saba works as a social worker at a girls' high school. Both know loss intimately. And yet, neither is prepared to face it reflected back at them. Adnan keeps his distance, offering respect without warmth. Saba tries to make the marriage work without begging for affection. What follows is not a love story born from passion - but one shaped by silence, grief, and the difficult choice to stay present instead of hiding in the past. Some marriages begin with promises. Theirs begins with restraint.

The Weight of Not Losing Again - Chapter Thirty Nine-Strength Failed Them Both (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1606452995-the-weight-of-not-losing-again-chapter-thirty-nine?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=goarwago Adnan agrees to marriage under one condition - no children. Preferably, a woman who can never have them. Saba is forty. Educated. Independent. Quietly resilient. After six years of marriage marked by infertility and three miscarriages, she was divorced and returned to her parents' home carrying grief no one could see. When her aging father worries about her future, she agrees to marry again - not out of hope, but out of resolve. Their union is arranged, practical, and deeply uncomfortable. Both come from modern, well-educated Pakistani families. Both have careers - Adnan runs his family's real estate business; Saba works as a social worker at a girls' high school. Both know loss intimately. And yet, neither is prepared to face it reflected back at them. Adnan keeps his distance, offering respect without warmth. Saba tries to make the marriage work without begging for affection. What follows is not a love story born from passion - but one shaped by silence, grief, and the difficult choice to stay present instead of hiding in the past. Some marriages begin with promises. Theirs begins with restraint.

Original cover artwork for the Venus series of books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. "Pirates of Venus and "Lost on Venus" were done by J. Allen St. John and the other two were done by Edgar's son, John Coleman Burroughs. The last one was done in 1946.

LOONEY TUNES YANKEE DOODLE DAFFY (1943)

But yeah,I will be turning 45 on October 13th ,and making the best of everyday eventhough i am still going through a very difficult time but i will get through it eventually...