Translated from Persian by Salar Abdoh<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
We were sitting on the balcony watching videos of the demonstrations in Tehran on our cellphones.<\/p>\n
I told her, \u201cThis is the big one. This time they can\u2019t just roll things up like all the times before.\u201d<\/p>\n
She was resting her head on my chest, watching the screen. \u201cIs it really possible? Talk to me, Asghar. Tell me we\u2019ll be free. We could go to concerts from now on. Go to the beach \u2014 and I could wear a bikini! Tell me it\u2019s not all a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a dream, my love. It\u2019s real. We\u2019ve turned into a nation of lions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the other afternoon when you were away, it got pretty rough around here. They hurt a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know. But it\u2019s different this time. Don\u2019t look at this nowhere town we live in. In the big cities, and not just in Tehran, no one\u2019s backing down.\u201d<\/p>\n
She did not skip a beat: \u201cThen I\u2019m not wearing a hijab either, from now on. I\u2019m going to the salon to bleach my hair. Afterwards, I\u2019m going to the city.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCity? What city?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just called this a \u2018nowhere town.\u2019 And I agree. I want to go where the action is. Tehran, Mashhad, Tabriz, Esfahan \u2026 wherever.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can get yourself a new wife, darling.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want a new wife.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut ours was an arranged marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course it was. Every marriage is arranged in this town. And what\u2019s wrong with that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything\u2019s wrong with it. My youth was wasted on us, my dear. I like you, but I don\u2019t love you. This town has slim pickings, and you and I got paired. Now I want out.\u201d She pulled herself upright, put the cellphone away, and stared into my eyes. \u201cIf women are going to get their freedom, why should I spend the rest of my life with you? I don\u2019t even like a man with blue eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t like my blue eyes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t trust them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen you\u2019re going to find someone with brown eyes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I mean is, I\u2019m not staying in this backwater anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFine. We\u2019ll go to Rasht. Maybe even Shiraz. But, let\u2019s admit, Tehran\u2019s a bit expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n
She rolled her eyes. \u201cIf this government goes, you\u2019ll have an army of women who\u2019ll love your light hair and blue eyes. Come, let\u2019s agree to get a divorce. Don\u2019t waste yourself on me, dearest.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re being serious? If this regime falls, you want a divorce?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot on my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am being honest with you, Asghar. How can you say you love me if you don\u2019t appreciate my honesty?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually never said I loved you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSee? If you don\u2019t love me, so much the more reason we should go our separate ways.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you insane? I\u2019m out there every day, working myself stiff for a piece of bread and a roof over our heads, and you\u2019re talking about divorce?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAsghar, whether you like it or not, I want a divorce.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut why?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy? Because this life we live is empty. Empty! You think anyone will ever again want to watch a film with a woman wearing hijab once we\u2019re free? Our lives are a lie, my precious. A woman in her own kitchen wearing hijab because she in a movie or a TV series. Do I wear a hijab in my kitchen?\u201d<\/p>\n
I shook my head.<\/p>\n
\u201cExactly. It\u2019s all a big lie. Admit it. And now the big lie is ending. Get used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
She got up and left without another word. Went to her mother\u2019s house, like all the other times we\u2019d had a falling out. Two days later, when she returned, I\u2019d been thinking.<\/p>\n
I said, \u201cI\u2019ll give you back your dowry. Go do whatever the hell you want with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd what do you want?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cA Peugeot. I\u2019ve always wanted to drive a Peugeot. Without both of us to support, I can buy myself one of those beauties and move to Tehran and take my blue eyes with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo all that talk of \u2018you are my one and only\u2019 was just for show?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI swear, the thought of freedom got me truly thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not man enough yet for freedom. I was testing you to see what you\u2019d do. You want a damn Peugeot out of all this. That\u2019s all you care about.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo but<\/em>. Let\u2019s watch some \u2018Woman, Life, Freedom\u2019 videos tonight. What do you say?\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c\u2026 I say whatever you say, my one and only.\u201d<\/p>\n
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