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17- Caged Bird
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It was Saturday, he didn't have work to do and normally, he would have gone to the office and gone over the files on his desk but today, he found that he couldn't.
The air in his room was thick with the pungent smell of tobacco but somehow, it was calming to him.
Puffs of smoke left his mouth slowly as he twirled a hand in the smoke, tracing Noor's name in it over and over.
Some would say that he was love sick, wallowing in self pity while writing the
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