Discussion questions- missing tariq

[Leila]

"Or not as relentlessly; not nearly. There would come a day when the details of his face would begin to slip from memory's grip, when overhearing a mother on the street call after her child by Tariq's name would no longer cut her adrift. She would not miss him as she did now, when the ache of his absence was her unremitting companion-like the phantom pain of an amputee."
This passage appears in chapter 26. The book ends with Tariq and Laila married and living together. What does this passage mean to you? When does this period of Laila missing Tariq occur?