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author of persepolis $16.95 U.S.A. $23.95 Can. From the best-selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough-talking grand- mother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an after- noon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men. As the afternoon progresses, these vibrant women share their secrets, their regrets and their often outrageous stories about, among other things, how to fake one's virginity, how to escape an arranged marriage, how to enjoy the miracles of plastic surgery and how to delight in being a mistress. By turns revealing and hilarious, these are stories about the lengths to which some women will go to find a man, keep a man or, most importantly, keep up appearances. Full of surprises, this introduction to the pri- vate lives of some fascinating women, whose life stories and lovers and will strike us as at once deeply familiar and profoundly different from our own, is sure to bring smiles of recognition to the faces of women everywhere—and to teach us all a thing or two. ALSO BY MARJANE SATRAPI Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return EMBROIDERIES gh eng MARJANE SATRAPI » PANTHEON BOOKS, NEW YORK Translation copyright © 2005 by Anjali Singh All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc, New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in France as Broderies by Association, Paris, in 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Association, 16 rue de la Pierre Levée, 75011 Paris. L’AS0 the Living room with my S tray ithe others had just finished the dishes. What timing! Al , Finally) Bravo ,m Jranddangucer'! Bravo! Bravo, Mar}i | May God Keep you! Happiness! Oh! Aut and in Chis way (Ta oy Ty 0 ol) PETRA 6ir) of the heart.-- a e. *% AR, MBean, Pook ae et x heey, we Sy i se Which one? ‘ldhood fa Do You vermembber ch one? Your chilAkood Friend ? Naki 7 —— 7 Yes --- poor dear. She died af ter Yeors and years of , Incontinence - But vealLy, it’s wot good bw Speak At of the Aead The deceased ave So harmless! Oh, unhappy Woman ! TE you Kuew how Sad her Like Was... Oh veally es sha Sagres Completel: ‘ Wer Vachets 4 Yesryesrit’s true - But if You Kmeut how sad her ufe was... aie Well , Since you insist... When she and T were ound, We musk have been barely 48, her Parents chose a husband for her Obviously, at the ime, everyone got married that Way - The problem was that She Loved another, whose name T didwe Know... Se tell us, Mom, instead of beating Ovound the loush! se Three weeks loefore her wedding ,-T had gone out te ouy Sometring or other, when T Suddenly can into er. £” Qook-- Nakid ? What’s the matter 7 Has Someone died ? My fe ea Noo, gre +Tn time is over! You'lr See- oW'lL learn You'll have Xo love your ere ten husband - the other... / Se chats what Tie ate What? he’s called, lose What do Your secret nad ny os you mean? ° lover ? v (oy by y Who Cook it? L Love him, he Loves me ---T hod ko sa d_bye...We didn’t Sust ofnean too. te jut happened-- happened!!! Yes .-- Lier gping Co be married in AB days. My husloand WILL Know thot Tm ho Longer avirain- leryoke Will Know * My father With Kil me! Walp me ,T beg you, do Somettring \\ Despite my young age ,T hod alveady divorced my First husband. I had experience - I told Nahid that I needed a litkle time b Finda Solution . I bold her CO meet me the wext day. T thought about it oll waht... @ sss and in the wee hours & the morning J hed Une answer. Here , take this Little va2or blade The wight ok the honeymoon » you Squeere your thighs Kightty, you ery Ata Very very Loudly and, when the time comes, You wt Yourself a Wattle but justo Very Little bit! There will be @ few Arops ot blood. He’ be proud of his Vivi ity, and youll Keep ‘four honor intacr. Then came this famous Wight when ; in the Wedding chamber, She Grally found hersetl bete-a-téte ulith her Wwstoand ; the One Whom you all Knew. So she Squeezed her thighs hacd..- « Che gentleman adn’t even undressed, hen oe started bo Scream -- + OMd When he joined instead of cutting ler in the bed; Wersell ; Well ) he mot Wim! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Hal Ha! Ha! } You can well Y iow n (7 . imagine | The iN b= Poor guy 11! > Not only was he t Hat misled about Hor | the merchandise,| |-7% rc but ow top of | that he found limsSelf with a si besticle ! f Hee! Hee! Heel Heel wy) eet They never the Less, Lived their whole Lives together ! Of course , you Know, my child, men’s pride is situated in their Serotums. When one finds oneself with a bloody testicle , At is preferable bo Keep one S mouth shut. In Short, with or Without her vicginity 1 Shes no Longer of this world- One mast vespect the dead. You're vight. e's true thot Tad four Kids - Four!! Gur L stir have wever Seen the male 0 - He came into the bedroom, We turned off the Light... And voila , T was pregnant! What’ more ,T was Gvanted four girls. So Tve never Seen penises! Quite honest Ly, haven’ missed Anything- You're one to tatk . May I remind You blag OA waned three Gimes! T never veally under stood how iF was possilde CO macry Khree Kimes -Sust ove Marriage was enough to make me vealite that Living With a man Was unfeasible \ (AN cow ste ZO ow in i joo fatace> | AS it wee ( Your heart but le « Aus With your brain: Don't Listen to her! You must marcy ‘tne one you Love. T had a marriage of conveni tT never Knew Whak Love Was, ‘che opposite of good sense - ence “he vesult 7 because Love iS Marciage + AS Like voulette : Sometimes one Wins, fren one Loses . Exen iF Youre very in Love , ak can skill Jo bad - Yes, but while waiting for At bo turn Sours one Can experiance happiness: There’s no point in getting rovried! Listen to me ;the only time Tat married Z alas 43 years old! Yes, thirteen | Coming from a apod aristocratic farily ; ab Went without Soyirg, that I would marry a minster ov an officer. Sot was entitled to anarmy general 56 years My Senior. “sere 1 Cough! = Sz g= Qo (ESeay 2 Yes, my dear: -- he weds an old NV GEE ~ Ac (ostice) Know * Ga) Well, now CEs CEs (Sea) e. ay you the tvoth) 1 (srt a Whot do you mean? on Ave you acing to lee A ay Kory instead of interrupting Me every two Seconds? Sorhe came to ask my mother for my hand; and She Granted it to hum right away - I vememloer at like at was Yesterday . I was wearing a greet ress with Little ved flowers. T was in the middle Of swinging « Suddenty, I saw Mom at the Window.. - General Molakherolmolouk has Come to ask for your hand in marriage. The Cefemony will take placd ino month - No' L dont want bo ! L didwt ask (or lowe opinion - You ave Boing to get married I! riod, Krat's Final 1! | Ak the time D had thick eyebrows that wet in che middle. Like this) Te was torture Co have them Pulled out one one-They ae my hai and ray mother had a dress mode on Which She Wad Some A,200 Pearls stitched . Then , they mode me bee eed MC aly so that T would pleate an old man! . In the end, I Looked Uke a Little whore -.- . T was married as planned . BD few hours Later, ‘t found raysel ge Shu up in the house of the OLA guy -- SEES SUS TE ost Ou et vs T book one Look at Wis wrinkled back and vealited that Ac Wasn't possible . So I made my decision. In those days , the toilets were outside. Once in the gorden, I Climbed the wall and van away in the dack- TI knew thak my dunt dhdnt live very far away. Runt | Cam T Live With you ?T never want to go back Eo mY husband's house - ee per eeinyy aaa ae a oe yeearved ve My aunt had muck more modern ideas than my pavents. And She was a widow , which allowed her to UiAK and to ack for hecsel? . So She Kook me in- My father, my mother And my brothers tried everything to ger me to veturn to my dear and tender husband > I Sad, “Nol”. But the worse was yet Eo come . The old guy didw’'e want a divora! L made a thousand prayers for hien to die. God, have God, Wave God, have Wien get nim loe WE by S cancer, 2 a Car. > 2 xy F ‘a oo Ske Ee hing be Kived roa ez2z Y K The foreskin ? No , it’s oKay + L think that , generally Speaking 1a dick isw! veally Photogenic. Tks nok dusgust ina, , that Little Kin that hangs 7 LT quite oavee. QS You agree with what? Thok a penis is ugly oO Oo Or that a0 Eur z \ man Knows how Ce. SN to satisty his —_—S a Woman? ANS My first marriage Was o love warriage-T married the person who I loved most in the World . Wis name Was Houshang- He was a Communist . When the Shah Came back to power in’53, they arrested atoir number of people - Poushang Was on the list . He had Eo leave che country. Arainehs my darling» L must leave for Germany... My Life is at vist heve . cou married - Then! NoLhing, wll ever be olole to separate wens. Do you Wank to? Wola You Like ko become ™Y wife? My fother acce ted Wis vequest right away because the whole city Knen! obout Houchand and me . The Quicker T ack married , the quicker my family would veapin ics lost \aomor s.- nally s- December AB, A953, NOS Che mek btantitul day & my Life - We \wod ovapnited a Little party --- Larnsty and Some Cle friends . There were 60 or FO ok us alrogekher .* Look! LT stith carry a pte of this day with me - Tive = wever lbeen separated £com it foe 38 Years --* ¥ In Tron si one has the means jone must invila of least 300 people - wg. TUL Leave first and you ; WAL jon me if a question « Bern o few Tes ™Y greatest pronths From dream’! Loried for a year. were to linn every day. He never wroG to me, buk instead Would coll me every Wednesday - We had just enough time to a Consummate our marriage « Cc The next day he left for Veerorate| oO Tm beginning mny jee Seon .T dot fee Bi to Live in Poverty. a Ea Hees g eal} Ss x e $ Tim Linding a wee Apartrnent soon-T doa want You to Live uncombor tably- 0 m furnishing the opartment boon 1T dort —— Five Vr tived of = aoming! Then why do you keep lis photo ? [~~ oO Te’s wok Wis photo I’m Keeping ! Tk’s my wedding photo ..- va Hout Could you expect me Co Still love lim 77 Atter everything We did to me.--? When T avrived in Berlin, We didn’t even Come to meek we at the aivport..- — = ss T Wasted for three hours --- sss before T finally decided to take a taxi... Mrs. Amineh Arshadian ? L’ma friend of ion husband’s. je got held wp at Work. he Wosw't able Co come - He asked me to fake you to Your house. Have You Known Houshang for @ long time? Yes for seven ears- T met trim vshen T Was Sixteen - ws We didw't inspire my confidence . Anyway ,T never San) lim again. He scored me .When we finally arrived ... 7 In my Whole Life , I'd never seen UOT Ce. Such a dilapidated place ! ~ L hod %o wait five more hours Ss before my so- called husband came home ... OK, T missed you oo much! Ok + Oh! ++ He Smelled Like woman -He explained that he hadn't had the time Co furnish our “Love nest” LT asked kim what lis work was. He answered thak he devoted all lis time to Wis political ackivikies ... He Was undoulokedly lousy with che diplomatic Velations between his kesticles and Women’s breasts ! ALL Khak led learned of Western culture Was ko sUcK lack Wis hair more and to Kiss on the right and the Lett... é p wa After the second weelc he stacted coming home Later and Later. Every wight LT Would wort for him at the window , and every night I Saw him gek out of a Kaxi with a new Woman ... He Kissed them in a way hed never Kissed me! When I asked him who these Women were , he Cold me thor hey Were Comrades thet at wos politics , that he preferred thot I stoy out of all khok! And I Wanted So muck to believe lim that Tee my sel be Coakken for a fool Couldn’t Continue . T wos on the verge & Gong Crazy: So T decided to Fill my days - I registered to Learn Gorman at the Gpethe Institute in the Mornings ; and in the evenings I took a domce Class. That’s where I mek Herbert He wos my Walt? partner . T sensed tha he wanted co seduce me jbut F Was a mamned Womot\; So T Couldnt ajive in to Wim . The more I Saw Verloect the less T could stand wy Lie with Howshang! t Finally ler my self 90 Herkeré was so Charming . No one hod ever satisfied me ke hun: Just one Kiss amd Iwas alveady In Seventh eaven --- J iG > ~ ‘ “> I Lasted @ year all the SS Same , but ine Gkuation Thanks to kim , 1 found the Courage to leave wy husband. Tim geting vy You ge! rel Oh my , OW my T Whol Knpidity: wacko be Khe mistress of a Teally ; whet ota pidity... married Mon iS Eo have *h betkey vole +> ve Agker my trip to Europe L became the oe do eno «Te was perfect «.- ia Do you veolize 7 His dirty shirts, his disgusting underwear, Rin ent tl IN : His hemorrhoid His bad Ks breath, orca’ Not to mention his bod moods --- Wl z Ss Se = == = vee WL pall that Jis for his wife. Zz When a married man Comes \ to WS mistress +++ v./ he’s always Ws teeth lis breath is bleached and ironed, Sparkle, Like perfume s+ yj Y La . ure sess wey 5” DQ cas he’S in & Qo0d wood ; lre’s full of conversation, = \ —— he bells You’ beauti} with gou,T “re extranrdinary, eee ot Bored I6 rare pearl = , ao F & \ \ eo z ZN i Z) q y E S LY =—=s a 5 WD ——. \WY Parvine iS right | We Good wives ,we pay for Our oun foolishness - We projeck everything Onto our husbands. Men are aware of this and they exploit at- Anyway have you heard Shideh” S Grandmnalt L told you that ie Was a Secretl Dow t be Wigh and Gro ahead | Wee Come on , tell! mighty rieny Oil ! Listening 1) (Pr IS, @ WwW ky a3 L love: lLeok, TL also Go on, go on'! Stories |, told my Story ! lin » EL y - = oy y=N Ib Cz o a ~~ om Jy e eo ~ / N NX T see that Listen Eo me - Tm We wont kell Erust rules... Your mother. Tell | anyone s+ Dowt Feel Wery geod | Creda pressured | (ex s{ yes bitase! Pee ° yore e.e JA bt BSS ws OKay | T’m going, Lo tell You this story - But You have ko promise never to vepeat at Xo anyone |! ~ o \ \ A It’s as theugh you dow’ t een Kuow us! Obviously | Whe ave We ading to No; honestly | Have low ood heard us v veveol othey $ Secrets ? Peop Of course AE will Stay between us. Right 9 cell? L Swear on the heads of On my mother’s my four daughters! head! I dort Kuow If you learn Ahak Someone other than the vine of us present here lhas found out, Know Tm wot the ove who let the cot out of be lag ! aloouk the others, four you Can Count’ on We - In my family, Tm a Sued “The Tomb” ! Do You alt Know Shideh? = S Thak’s her! Well, She Gok married at At to the First guy Who come along to gek away from her vents; Who tyvannited ler. Two Years Loker, afer her Sexual weeds had been Soistied , She realized that She had nothing in Common With this man - Te was hell for her to ger her divorce . had stopped seeing her during this whole evied because I hated her husband . I thought him an absolute Zero -L van into her by chance last year at a party . She hod changed o Lot ..- It’s you, Shideh' L didwe vi The lost! Cine T San! you you were a brane fA 2 ¢ Yes, 1 have decided to take my Lfe into my own lands. £ want to find a man ike understands and Yesnects me.Youc prayers woe Soy ay ae Well! T dow Know i¢ it has anything to de with my Prayers or not, lout afew months, aap She. veel a mano certain Kourosh whom She describes aS h-DOR-A- BLE! Ve only Seen his picture . Hes a bit r bab Compared Co hey cx-husband Miho eked ee an vld Sausage »he’Sa real Lilet Mignon - Tim disappointed. This was your secret ana incredible story 7 ty Woat | We're \ Only at the = veLude ; the best is Skill to come- Even it this Kourosh is adorable and Superb » there ’s still an enormous, problem . His mother doeswt Want Winn ko marry Gnideh! And why not 277 She's avery wie girl I dove think it has an Hing, to do with SWideh “This Woman Was two Sons . The older ove is married to a Bivorced woman Who puts Wim Lhvough the wringer Your big brother book @ divorced woman for awite. A reat SUT without any DIGNITY | Have jou seen where that’. Us 2 And you wate do the Same dking (t92 TF You MARRY HER «.. ¢; Mom! Nott “ L'W overdose on Sleeping pills... , . @as.e so Plt deve a Knife through my chest... Mom! Stop! (ep) = TUL ormother myselt with a pillow... Nea ( w (= yi & In short ;every day She Comes up With a new methed af Killing Wercelf..- Ghidel’s boyfviena is torn in two .On Khe one hand he doesw& Want to Lose Ski deh lout on the other hand , he AoesKE Want Co Conse his mother pain- Go he proposed to Shidel that they Stas together as Ehey ave "ea ithouk getting married + 3 Buk whet’s wrong with this Swideh? Of course! It’s Shes magnificent t! better when it’s fvee! eel You Know men AS Soon as You give- in to Chem, they ignore Yyou- We The other day she called Coask me At I wanted to accompany her to see a woman who does white wnagic: WWE magic? Ha, ha ha +. 2 OS sss OW Yeah? You're veolly Serious 7 = Okay. We'll meet ak your house at Five ofclock. T’Lt come get You - ——————— NR YQN LH} = EE] = vight ! We avrived ot a Seedy alley . I did E even Know that Ehese Kinds of streets existed in Tehran - L See ... 1 see--+ You love Someone --- His first name Contains the letter O and the letter S.He’s handsome - Hes Kind. He loves you very raudh ... but his mether, Oh dear! His mother is a viper - She is mean -She doesnt Want her Son to marry You.She’s doing everything She can to prevent it !! OK , the ead Woman ! Ok, the evil one! Oh, Khe vile Woman! !l--- . Yes, I Know. What should I do? Hevel Take this Key - You Prepare Some kea . You sleep with lim. Once lu’s ejaculated — careful !— he Wesst Come in you - You pat the Key in Your vagina - You count to F-. Then You vernove the Key and pat ik nko a Gap - You pour Une ben on kop - You count tot. The lack step isto vernave the Cy key. Tea prepared ike Ans Should be drunte loy your heart’s Chosen one in the TF Seconds that follow ejam lation ‘There that UL be 3,000 tumans* # Squivalent to $ 4O in 1994 (thanks Ee inflation) Obviously, she followed all the magician’s ) CH vecommendakions fo the letter.:. ~~ . She prepared the bea, made love, 3 Yor to the Kitchen, Q z/ —EEee— put the Key inside her, then into the tea , be Then She van lack to the bedvoom aad ence Khere : Here, my darling ;L made you Some tea. —— T dowt Want tea, TI Wort you .-- —S A 0) Ts fest attempt Was a fartuve because she only had a few Seconds left to persuade her boy Friend to dvine the ic Cea before Che Tt Seconds weve wp Dlviowsly ; She Acdw’t make AC. foulure + The second attempt was alse a My Love | 1 wads you Some vetY Joed Ceo! + aS for the thicd try. Ok, great That’s wonderful 0 Tove qoutts disgusting | wat’s acs 3 white Stuff floating on top? L can't dvink Aus {111 mn Hal Ha! white st ube The wihate stuff! Ha! Hal How ross! Ha!Ya'Wa'Ha! White | He: Why ave you laughing Like thot? Whot’s tis "White stale 2 No! T just have the feeling that my husband is Cheating. I want him to come loack tome . T veally have ho Luck. My first husband cheated on me With dotens of Women. My Lover Cheated On WS wife. With me, buk he didwt marry me, and now it’s Hossein’s turn. After thirty years together, the highs And the Lows, the Clildven we had». At’s pathelic, AES wee No, wot Look, T had the Same problem With my ovin husband. Whot? He was cheoti Oe a fl N Ww Re PW Whol do You mean IN NS by almost ? & to \ Just Chat he was always Looking at other Women | to the point it was becoming dangerous. Epecially in the Car! His head Was turning So much in every divection Enak we narrouily avoided having a humber of accidents! And Whot did you do 7 You Know, men, Like Women, have their menopom se at So. . , Except With them , At’s invisible. Let's the Yeason why they want to be with younger Women : to feel pung too . To prove to themselves and ko the whole World Whot they are Capalote of! Ig they ‘ve WiEK aw old Woman At must mean Chak they are equally old. So instead of letting a bimbetke Yeap Whak I Spent 26 years sowing , T Aecided to veac. Take a S00d Look! You havewt noticed any difference 7 Your buttocks Buk what white stat ? ave tighter! = S ~~ Ni) : 7 T Knowl! Youre L think Your breasts ave bigger. You ‘ve all none) Before 1 had Small breasts anda a big ass.. s+. Now I hove big breasts and alittle ass! Yes Ladies ! L had my fat Yemoved from here . wee And I hod it injected here Ak present pmy breasts art wyy husband's Sole object ok ottention . He can’t skop Kelling we thot 1m beautiful and desirable ;that 1 Look Uke Brigitte Bardok , Chat Tan the lee St thing thot ever happened bo him in Kis Life thot Has rthok Xhok .-- OF couvse thiS Adiok doeswE Know that every time he Kisses my loveastes , at “s actually my ass he’s Kissing... Tins still amated by the vesulls of your Operation .I¢ 1 had Khon T wouldn't have deprived myselF So. Tho is fo sey in my Kime one only ar fie Wose Vedone - What? You had your nose. ee “I always thought thot... You always thought that ... What? That this Tittle pointed Ching Was my natural nose? Frankly , do you Know one Single person in the Family who has khis nose ? ++ No, my dear | L had inherited the majestic: hose of my late ther. Ming Was almost & / perfect Copy of his - Those Who Knew Wim vecoguized Me and vice versa, Mu wnse Was So enormous thot at Someone sat on my TIBhE, AC Was impossible for Wim to see whot was happening on my Left. Listen ; my dleac, the wose is Key - when you meek Someone Uew, What alo you Look at first ? His face, of Course. fo|o\ fe you take face “s oval yy) pee an dvaws olay a ie fiva its center. What’s in Khe Center oF a Face? A nose!! I concluded that Since che Mose is Khe most Centvol element of the face, At logically loecame Khe. MoE eSCentrot element. To have a neon hul wose iS khus of mayor importance : Jone preaching to the Converted! TE you Ken howl She and Wer Cousin Fayman hasslea me With kheiv nose ObSeSsions ! When this young lady wos Six one Aioy She Came to Wake we op rignt iIn*che middie of a nop ito deliver Some iQ hewS--- ans eae eens z, SAS RAS TTS look here Thok’s EU before her Operation om So 1 told mysett Since Your Nose 1S Super vty L Cou' vedo it for you: Avd youre the one Oh wo! Who will perform Tt ae ‘ve the operation? a plastic Surgeon: . And also dow't worry about the money. I've Spoken to Pay mnan about at Were ping, to Find a solution - Ah! Becanse Poymon also kinks thot Orcone 4 nose iS Everyone thinks So- “saper-0gly”? Their solution consisted of lomying, bisaxts and Cigavattes ak the supermarket and veselling them a little more expensively in the street. Taji played the vole of the supplier. T had no choice,Mom! You Know as well as T do that they were so motivated it would have been diticult to de otherwise . They Spent one Wuhole summer Sitting behind a Cavdbeard box hak Served as a counter to earn some Cash. My mom is right. We ulorited Like dogs , but we loved Grandma So much that we vieve Capable. of any sacrifices provided thot she would have @ eam fal nose in the end. it’s four Kumans. Yes, We Kuow, but Wwe need money. For what ? Ik’ S @ Secret. Tn thet case, give me two more. Charmed our neighbors ; Who hought Lots of cgarektes and biscusts from us. Ne deposited all the earnings in a piggy bank. wa the end of the Summer we ed collecte 450 tumans, but vio we weeded Was F, 500 Camans. 3) Since we were Little we quile easily So what did you de? To get them to forapt their Aisepprintment in net having enough money for their randmother § operation »L Cook then bo ao toy stove where they blew all of a in less Khan five Seconds - And so my Child ;since You preferred your toys to my noses Tim’ offering you a chance to vedeem \yoursell- Moke me a gift of a full embroidery. WA! HAY HAY HAY HA\ MAY HAL WAY HAHA! WAHAY Hee! Heel Heel T Love Ehis expression tt Heel Heel Heel Hee! Fuw embroidery) Ob, becanse You Know what it is 2 Just because She's wever Seen & penis doesnt mean ee ae t oud Onytni about 9 Anything | = You yore, tout at’s Practiced much More Xhan you Abin } WHAT 72? There are o Lok of Women Who do At ? Obviously! Women’s morals are relaxing ! Todou’s Girls ave no Longer Viegas Pafore mares us They do everything te Men and opt Sewn wp aepin bo get Married \ THis Way , everyone is hoppy! 7am Andthe ment What do the men do? They aot Uhernselues Sewn up doo 7 Ha! Ha! Ha! You Know ? Therés net only Che full erabroidery where Ehey complet locke you ! Ha! Hal Ha! There s also pactiot embroidery | Ha! Ha! Hal... see The other Aay T ulas at a funeral. After the Cemetery, everyone apthered at the home of the deteased’s fanuly - Ahefe Wert tuo women having a disurssion next to me -T/L Adwit & the fack thee L Listened & their Conversation -- T heard That's right. A) Sele WY T ive in 7 europe - Luxemburg: { Someone who fou ery ve oe oe As Lives in the West You must suc ely ee in? Know hou the aking in iS Xone - aking in of , “ae me?? the vagina. ¢, ae Listen ! T have hod two Children Like you: TE tain ina is ike a Yulbber hand. There are good quality f rubber bamds that say elastic, even When You pall On them ASO Limes and \ {- { Phere are others that Stretch f— out after two uses - — ~ — My If You had only seen the face on On the Woman who wanted to be (aa olen in! T was dying of laughter ! ww So you See You Can do the Same ' so fo think that At this poor Nahid had been born in this epoch, she would have been able to have hersett embroidered instead of cutting her poor Wasband ! Dow forget that youre the ons Who advised her to do it! As far as I Know, T have: never encouraged anyone bo tuk balls. And why is i€ the women who have to be Virgins ? Why Suffer torment to satisfy an asshole? Because the man Who demands “virginity” from a woman iS nothing but aw asshole) Why dowt we behave aS Westerners do!? For thera, since the problem ef 2% is vesoled they can move on to other things | THis 1S the Veasen they progress li! Tr this same west, the members of high societ Like Hae avistooraks , hove the same point of Neds AS We dO on the subject.To them, virginity is Wighly erized- It’s because Avistoevats Ay alt on jenevates Woo just have \\ to look at my family! \ let it be! We dow’t tove-- iF people want ra get theme set Rarvine you forget that nor everyone has your stvengt hy ‘or our Courage.-* It’s easier when ones an artist Lake you: You! re RON almost everything > Aunt isw’t Completely Wrong ko accuse us Of being degenerates. Tien Sorry that’s wet whet weant - A fer months ago , One oF My Cousins Whe I hadwt Seen ina long Cime Are you Colicing about this lost Ok Ker Kind, Parvaneh ? Yes Aunt! Com £ tell my story now 7 Oh, exaase me ,ms deacl I’m shutting up! I “promise ! So, as I Was Saying, my cousin Parvaneh Came co See me--- Taji! T haw something very iaportant to cell you! MI L dow’t understand a word of What you're Saying Come sit dour, bake off Your veil; Come --- Bahar is getting mavried' Do you veolite? Mydaughter is getting married’) But She just got her highschool daploma ! The gentleman who is Sping to marry ler isa MOLTIMILLIONAIRE ! He OWNS seven houses in London, two in Monaco - A muLltimillionaive in London? Buk how old is he 7 Forty- one! He’s Lived in England for the last 25 years. He was at the Royal College . At kis ee Know S what he wants! Ah, Taji | Tbs v 10'S Cantastic Um So hoppy! Can you explain to me why aman of 44 who has lived in Europe practically his whole life and who is educated Wants to marry a girl of AB? Well s4ou Kuow ow western aivls ave + They "re no longer pure , Starting at ages ten, eleven . He’s an Tranian . He has certain Values, and it’s all to lis Credit! Listen, Pavvaneh'! Since you came to see me st Suppose that T ave the right to give my opinion : Look: T Wink that you ave On your Way bw making a lag mistake | Bahar'is very Young Lee her study 7 be independent j become some dne I You Yourself married the man of your choice Give her the opportunity and the time to grow up and decide for Werselt - And the vesule? Evers time T Gane with “the man of wy choice,” he veproaches me for having run after him, Weaning thak a goed givl Would Lewd waited for him ko asc for her hand. No, Taji! She wilt be married - Sine’ LC SKILL have. the advantage OF hee youth ;unliike Mme Who Sets Called “oldloag all the time! I tvied in vain bo explain fo m Aduok ao COUSIN thak one doesn't one’s (( \ N vstking tole done - Shed made her Acasron | Finally came the wight of Khe Wedding--- vi The whole lay Hhere From my house bo Ee ca T conta’ E hop mysele thinking of *hS poor Child. 1 Chia into the arms of a stramger with (A the axcnse thak he’S vidh (Chak money ee isl everything in Life .-- buk there was Z. J > Lm veally happy that you’re heve } Bahar is Like my daughter. T would have Come Ko mokter what . By the Woy, Where are they, She and her husband? They Ze in the midst of getting their photos Katcen- Good! We're opin to Congratolate ae. We Ul See you Later. So Ebiiand I went ko Congratulate the reulyweds And there, whot did we See 777-- ° Not Bahar sitting ova sofa with hey husband at her side... of her husband 111 we Butta picture Where’s the 9room? er && T Went to find Ebr, and we went home right away. If T had Stayed 1T Would undoubtedly have pak my fist in her mouth. Finally sa week laber Bahar & a s Sle, leLE Loc London bo vejoin her er and two Feowehs After her departure ; Payvvaneh came Eo See me again: Oh dear 10k, her husband... her husband ! Her husband what 7 Her husband was unnatural --- What do you mean" unnatural” 77 Her husband was homosexual, a poof ! Do you vealite , I gave my daugnter to a fag, dirty homosexual whodrdrticuns hautncatistymydangulercanignn lpelieetlat... $0, her husband is ahomosexual - Now calm Yoursel€ , come Sie down bake OF Your veil - Come on... Oh dear, Taji! She fled her husband’s house 1 Oh dear! --- She Eold me that every wight instead af Sleeping in the bed, Well; her husband Slept under the bed. Under the bed! Can you imagine 299--- He Slept under the bed and lek ouk Cries Like A jackal - So her husband is Something of & psychopath . Tust ecaseaane Ploys a jackal under tre bed S wot mean that one isa WomoSexual - Reis YeS.--only.--he had everything us with Wien opt oa one @ psychopath and gay--- Oh Taji | Bahay told me all kinds of terrible stovieS...One doy She Came home from the Supermar kee, And there Was apparently another man in their house Whe pat Ws hand on her husband's thigh - Another time She Surprised him amd this Kime ik Was he who had lis hands on the thigh of Qbsther man . Another time, She Sow him Kiss three anys at the Same kime ... sss uk okay ,in every misfortune ;there iS ala eco Euing positive . My claughtey is still a vivgin he has every chance of vemarrying. o God, make her shut up tt) (ZA wy What is AC? Ave you in love With a homosexual) Your lovey iS a aren: Stop crying, ie“s brenteiny vo heart! m9 pers Sister will érer get over EWis Story - Go ahead, cry! E: yourself... TE you don't wank bo 9 sa anes 1 Awe Say a let her air out her heart. Theve’s notring, letter Enan Eallcing You’ve vight , It tell every they Ive been Uleping ie ko agate for So Long. Mas tc sh tap Sh toa tor KER y ; Azei was our Keighbor. She had moved into our building Ewe years before She Lived with her sister and ler parents - She was very Kind and Very oisereet- So discreet hak Wo one Knew anything about her Life - mother told me khok one of our Weighbors had Lowe to see her ko ask for my hand for hee nephew ; who Uved in Switzerland and who Was Looking bo marry & Tranian oicl ss year of Studyi ot a ee on” \ day , when T ook back from School ) my, . oO q be, My parents told me that the decision Was entively up to me. I thought about At for a Long time. L also talked about at a Lot with my Sister And my girltriends - IE I were in your place 1A be wary - In your place-:1 wontdn’ & hecitate for a single Second. You have the chance to Live iw Europe jbo wot Wear the Val ang move | To be free! ws What more Could you Want 9 Here, in Ivan, we have Wo future. Go ahead, get married : Leave !t o> T took my sister’s wariness toy Jealousy --- Also I wanted So muck to leave for the West. Every time T watched Mtv, I told myself that Life Was elsewhere - Whoet “s MTV ? You Kuonyit’s that music Channel ! The one with all the assroles Who Sing half naked? Rrally after thinking about Aba thousand kimes , 1 told my parents that it was okay With me - So my mother called the neighbor, Who Vight anion Coiled her brother and Sister_in-law, So that they weuld Come and official ask tov land. They broaght me Ehis photo of im, Soying Haak he Would be in Tehran > ina month , becaase ‘even At their son was handsome and takelligent and nice ,T should Get to Know him before getting enopaed! Loolk , this 1s Kim | an i e Oh F.... He is, 7 He 15, how do you Say... vevy Seductive --- Ob yest... And that ‘5 Where the proolem Lay --- see His physical masked the dartcness of his soul ! Tes not for nothing that At’s Said one Should beware Of handsome men \ T should have believed it ' He Was boo perfect bo bbe as nice as he Seemed. we T vernember the First time he tonic me toa vestauvant --- I could wore with you then! You Kuo /T Would fe to have my inde pendence ! AS for Children ;T’d Like US to Wait a Little | Naturally | What else is a 3000 - quave - foot house 900A for ? L think mayor four years Enough, Kime to enjoy our Lite together ! Me boo ;T Would Love bo tnjoy our Life together | Sood Sqnare feet without che set cellar the atkie ete. it must be alorut 4,000 square feet | In Short he agreed with everothing I card - If You Kueol the promises he made me! For example, he Cold me that I Could Continue my Stadies if I wanted Since he alveody had Awmaid Who took care of all the Cleaning 0 Anyone in my place would have fallen for Wis pretty words. wa And So we were married - I wenk to the best lhaivdvesser in Tekvan .Euer since my dear and earliest Childhood: I lad wished for only Dut Laing ¢ and theak was to see myself dressed as a bride. My dveam had jusk come true . Even loetker, my dress was made bby Mrs. Takataba' , low Know , the Super famous designer . We Yeceived Yoo quests. T was offered So mand jewels L A have weeded Several move ingers ,Arms ears OMA wecks ko be able Ko wear khem abl. Th was incredible -* \i i \v x During a wedding in Tran, almost all the gifts are forthe bude - The day after our wedding wight, he began fo lay the foordakion for is Diabolic plan. 9 L Said that & ve ELove yo! oR y [ecker? of pocketed in >= the way P of gold and Precious we RG AE skones ? Everything Buk everything, thok's an (€%) that’s mine iS is yours - gous too! f SerroreRor ae) OMe) DOS o) Ceo ~~ “D fo) TE you Kuew ° S 0 “owl mand if ol, 3 6 an) Pains me to leave you alone ; but duty eam calls. OY a 2A 5 % wns ~~” Can't be LU come join long -You’re ™y you as aa “BY Wife - ALS) T as T hove Know the my visa. ¢ minister of ~ transportation. 9° oo With his, 2 Support Lm 5

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