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This could be borne and he would bear it. Aqib drew a long shuddering breath. Life had some worth and meaning. It truly did.

Love visibly transformed him when their gazes met: from something furious and strange, to someone tried and true.

Aqib felt now as he had all throughout childhood: that everyone was moving deftly within norms long established, confidently speaking in terms already defined, but no one had remembered to clue in poor little Aqib.

Chilling words to Aqib, even a little frightening; for manhood’s ways had often tripped him up, and his errors provoked harsh correction.