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HAPPY Birthday🎂🎉

Dear Naureen,  Happy Birthday. 🎂 You are so far away right now. We know that. We feel that. There is a quietness in this house that was not here before you left — and we have both learned to live with it, because we know you are at your campus. You are becoming something. A doctor, inshallah. And that fills us with a pride.  MBBS is not easy. Anyone who has done it will tell you — it is years of your life. It is nights without sleep, mornings with books, and days when you wonder if you can keep going. And you are doing all of that — alone, away from your family, in a city that is not home. That takes something most people do not have. What moves our hearts the most — and we have talked about this many times — is that you still call. You always call. You ask if we are eating properly, if Pappa's femur bone is okay, if we need anything. You are the one who is far, you are the one who is studying, and yet you are still looking after us. That is not something we take lightly. Tha...