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I want to marry him, but I destroyed it through jealousy
As-SalamuAlaikum WB
I am unsure of a decision that I want to make and be happy with. I am feeling uneasy and stressed, and after many times of Istikhara I am getting mixed signals of feeling easy, happy and then sad and upset, my feelings as well as my dreams have a mixture of both the good signs and the bad as well.
For example, last night I dreamt of a white horse swimming in clear blue water, and I felt easy and happy and calm then I remembered later that I had also dreamt of a big black cat at the side of water with small kittens and that the mother cat is ripping off the heads of the baby cats. I was so confused as to why I had such a weird dream, on the first night of my Istikhara I had a dream of whiteness in my dream and I woke up feeling pleasant..but during the day my mood would change so I have done it again several times and either have no emotion or dream and just feel nuetral and confused.
I have been in a relationship with one of my distant cousins who lives abraod in America and is studying alone without family but he does have his cousins with him and they share a flat. He is a good guy and from a respectable family we know them very well as we are related to them and I have met him when I went overseas but I recently last year started to talk to him over the net and got to know him better...he had some studying to finish and so do I but I wanted to spend my life with him and he also wanted the same, we spoke and everything was always good and I was very very happy I told all my friends that I had never felt so much happiness in my life before...I felt as though finally my life was set and I was going to be with the person that I liked from so long and held in my heart and that Allah had blessed me and answered my duas....and then things started going dark...
I started to doubt him all the time and question him... I was in my holidays and was paranoid sitting at home all day.. it never happened before I trusted him with all my heart... and I was sure he would be faithful to me as i was his cousin... i started to check on him all the time and there was nothign much there.. like his FB and his emails.. and yell at him and question him and I was depressed deep down I knew what I was doing was wrong and that I shouldn´t question him that way.. after all we were not committed and I couldn't prove anything... the smallest thing I would take out of proportion... and make something big of it!!! and he would always reassure me that it was nothing and that he can remove it for me but that it would lead me to always question him and he wanted me to kill this habit because it would grow and suspicion wasnt safe for me since we are far apart... and instead it killed our relationship....
The only thing i held against him was why he still kept his social networking site even when i asked him to delete it... it was stupid but it got to me.. and we started to grow apart... and i hacked into his things and found he was speaking to girls and talking to them over the phone and this happened after i started all the questioning.... at least thats what i think (the girls were from overseas old friends from school).
I said horrible things and thought my world came crashing down on me that he was kind of cheating on me... i once asked him if he was meeting these girls and after that he even started asking to meet random girls he didnt know.. i felt as though he was doing it out of stubborness or whatever. so i tried to finish things off with him.. and it was very messy.. there was lots of tears and everything.. and he asked forgiveness and told me that i shoudlve trusted him and to not have done that... i was really angry and kept being angry at him and rejecting everything he was saying thinking he is a liar.. everything that came out of his mouth.
he cried when i told him i would be getting engaged and he cried and cried and he has never cried before in front of me.. and he promised to try to marry me when he could convince his mother and find the money since he is yateem and providing for his family back home... he was always a good guy... i dont know why this happened why he started doing that and i blame myself for making him do that maybe because he thought i didnt trust him anyway... i dont think he has met any of the girls he was just saying it randomly and not going ahead with it... but Allah Hu Alam... if this will carry on or not...
the bottom line, i love him, and i cant imagine my life without him... i want him as a husband and to be with him forever... i have always made dua for us and our happiness and togetherness i want to make not only him happy but his grieving mother as well.. i had lots planned in my head with him...and i feel as though it has shattered..he constantly sends me emails to forgive him and that he is sorry but he still has his fb and hasnt deleted it...each time he would tell me he is going to delete it. i wouldnt give him the chance to see if he will do it bcoz i would come up with other things to say...i do blame myself entirely now..but i feel as though he will remain this way..how will i bring him bak to being himself again? how will i trust and stop the doubt...i am not getting any answers..im getting mixed signals after dua as well.....
despite everything i said to him yelled at him and checked his private things twice he still forgives me and tells me he is still in love with me and will try to achieve me no matter what it takes. but i am still deeply upset by what happened...and i am still wondering if he is still talking to them or not...but i was told by an elder friend that it wasnt my right over him to tell him what to or what not to do..because im not commited to him...but im afraid what if it still goes on after we are engaged and commited? God Forbid. i have seen one of my other cousins also spekaing to random girls and whatever on msn and things...and apparntly its what they all do in their age and once their engaged they stop??? dont know
I am never in a settled mind..im always contemplating both sides...and sometimes im satisfied with my decision other times or most times i cant help crying and being upset and missing him deeply. It doesnt feel right at all..and he is far away from me we never see each other...he is in a big city working and studying.
Please give me some advice with a clear mind and be objective and hold no biases...please .. i do not understand is his tears and love on one side and him being adamant about me, and on the other side why he still wants to speak to girls..is this a phase will it get over with? and is he just being stubborn? because his in a big city with his friends and cousins who DO most of these things and he is just being a boy? we are a secret...nobody knows about us from what i know we are in secret since he doesnt want anyone knowing and speaking behind my back...since we are all related and that only the time he tells his mother and will make it look like an arranged marriage since people in our family and culture will never understand our relationship. i dont know how men work..but he is in his early twenties and still young..despite everything he says he loves me and always is there when i am trying to contact him Alhamdulilah.
Allah kareem! please make dua for me
- me
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María M
As salamu alaykum sister "me",
Jealousy is an imbalanced condition and causes suffering in the person that suffers it as well as the others, you and your cousin, know about it already.
We may be fine living with the normal levels of jealousy but when it darkness our life and becomes obsessive we have a problem. In your case, the "click" has been internet and secrecy, I believe due to what you have heard about others boys acts and because you don´t feel secure about him due to the secrecy of your relationship.
My priority here is that you are carrying with a secret that makes you highly vulnerable, then someway you are exposed, you don´t trust him because you are living a prohibited situation, your relationship doesn´t exist, it is a secret, for the world you are noone to him, this awakes of the alert systems and, in your case, jealousy has big peaks, you feel uncomfortable about it, because you don´t recognize yourself and you don´t like to be under such huge stress, ... sounds really bad to look into others person emails and personal accounts, and you are conscious of it.
*** First I have to tell you this words written by Wael:
ISTIKHARA IS NOT ABOUT DREAM INTERPRETATION.. There is so much ignorance about Salat-al-Istikhara. Everyone seems to think that it's about dreams, or the color one sees in dreams, or about birthdates and star signs, and other irrelevant factors. Please see the links at the top of this website to read correct and authentic information about Istikhara. Istikhara is about asking Allah sincerely for guidance, then doing the action that feels right in your heart and trusting that Allah will answer your prayer and guide you to the result that is best.
You have a secret relationship that is giving you a lot of problems, stop this, if you don´t have what is needed to have a proper islamic way of approach, then it means you are not ready to be in touch yet, this will save you from deeeper suffering, insha´Allah.
When our red lights begin to shine we should understand we are going beyond our limits and this brins uneasiness and stress (anxiety, anguish,.....) . Listen to your being and stop this relationship before it consumes all your energy, you are young and I am sure you have a lot of things where to put your energy, insha´Allah, Alhamdulillah.
I understand he is trying to protect you by keeping it as a secrect, but he is damaging you too, then if you want anything with him, do it straight and trust him.
I know that what I said before wouldn´t flow as easy, then a few tips that may help you to see what you really want and what you really feel towards him.
Please, pray your five salat on time and consciously, there is a series about salat by Jinan Bastaki, in SuhaibWebb, that wil guide you, insha´Allah.
Brother Stranger shared with us this link too:
33 ways of developing khushu in salah.
I do believe this will help you to bring the Peace back to your Heart, will ease the suffering you are going through and will guide you to the Straight Path, insha´Allah.
All my Unconditional Love, Respect and Support,
IslamicAnswers.com Editor
May Allah reward you for you kind and constructive advice sister Maria.
I understand what you have said and it's validity for a person's personal health and well being of the spiritual and mental state. Islam has provided us with guidance and answers in every form and every problem we go through there has been a solution written for it. Alhamdulilah for our deen.
My main concern was that I believe after going through his personal stuff which i find as flimsy and stupid and as what young boys do whilst their young and single and that it just wasn't meant for me to see it, It is wrong but for men it's kind of a space and independance at this time they wish to excerice. The thing is since that I have had a problem of getting rid of the waswasaa and the whisperings from shaitaan, the reason I am so confident that it is shaitaan is because of the way I feel afterwards, When I had him in my heart and mind I made plenty of dua to Allah azza wajjal to only give him to me if he is in my khairr and good for my this life and the next and if not to keep him as far as possible from me, but we ended up talking and getting to know each other, I became closer to Allah, i prayed more, I began to pick up the Quran Tafsir and read the translation and commentary religiously every single day so that I could become closer to Allah as I was so greatful for Allah accepting my duas, I had firm faith and I become a firm believe then I already was, I prayed lots of Nafl Salaah and offered lots of salawat etc. I told people how happy I was and I felt like this happiness was bursting from my heart like a fountain, I had contentment, hapiness, ease and peace of mind.
After a while thing's just got weird like I said in my original post, it was like someone hung everything upside down, things went from bad to worse, I was suspecting him, spying and then accusing and then growing in anger, so much anger I felt it was harmful to my health, lots and lots of sorrow would overcome me and grief would take me over, I began to have visions of dropping the Quran that I was reading and I cant say but other very disgusting things kept comming to my mind, so in order for all this to stop I tucked my Quran back on the shelf and didnt pick it up for months, I stopped my Nafl prayer and my heart just sunk I could feel my imaan just lowering day by day, and I actually for the first time in my life felt controlled by something I couldnt understand, and I felt lonely, helpless and full of negative thoughts and feelings and lots of resentment towards my cousin. But he never quite in trying to win me over again and he spent times in tears and hurt at the same time he was angry that i went through his things and he felt like i violated his trust by doing that not once but twice and Alhamdulilah he always replied with something calmly in a composed manner, how much I cussed at him or swore my head off and ranted and raged and cried he was calm on the other end and told me to please calm down, he told me he was apologetic but he felt attatcked by me because of what other people got upto and that he never got to have his childhood it was stolen from him since his father died, he gave me explanations for everything and promised he wasnt a bad person and that its what boys do when they sit around and its not meant for girls to see. (it wa snothing drastic just talking to girls that live in a completely different country and contact with his school friends form back home)
The thing is I never wanted to conceal all this in my heart you are right the guilt was eating me up, I explained everything to my mother, and I was dead scared but I had to get it off my chest I felt as though I had done a very wrong thing in trusting him and that my life was over and done with since he was from our family and that everyone would find out, but she was very understanding about it, that we could get to know each other but she told me what I was feeling and thinking was not good for my health that it is from shaytaan to think negatively about other peoples characters and its from shaytaan to suspect people over something so stupid and that every guy had a phase where when they arent committed they would like to feel free from any tigh downs even if it is just chatting over the net to random girls in different countries or talking on the phone to their friends from school etc...she said he is better off then what other boys do, but I was just afraid that this would excel into something more serious or bigger and if this habit would die after we are engaged because he openly tells me that at the moment we dont have a right over each other and that he cant excersie any type of order over me since he has promised to mary me in the right time when he is financially stable and can meet his mother when he goes back home from the US and talk to her properly as many people will be against our marriage because of the difference between our upbringing. And he tells me I can get rid of all of these things such as FB, and everything only once I am his wife and that once he is my husband he can have full right over me, which sounds reasonable..
I tried hard to remove all this suspicion from my heart that was eating away at me and jabbing through my heart, The one mistake I probabaly committed was listening to other peoples problems in their relationships and then applying that to my own thinking he may be doing the same or that we dont contact each other for a couple of days that he is deffinately upto something, Authu Billah.
Its true that doubt is like a silkworm that will crawl through your mind until you feed it and it grows bigger and bigger and it will drag you to the seventh hell of it and in the end you will just be shamed, regretful and hurt. And after every explanation he would give me I felt regret, about his life about how he had suffered as a child and how he continues to suffer providing for his mother and siblings overseas, paying for his study working more then 15 hours a day and having to study as well. Please keep me in your duas, I need it, I never knew that suspicion was so difficult to control and once you allow it in it feeds on your thoughts and feelings and grows in you. I have seen this happen to many many girls but I never thought it would happen to me. I do know he cannot always make time for me, deep down i have the answers in my heart its just small things tick me off and then i make a big deal about it, and after i speak to him im calm again and trust him with my life its just when he leaves me for a week or so and his busy with work and study as he works for long hours he sometimes falls asleep in his uniform and wakes up the next morning I feel sad that why he cant give me time... why he cant make time and things of that sort, he also walks to uni and work because he cant afford to have his car checked out by the mechanic...and I knw he wont be open to marriage anytime soon because of his state of affairs. But he plans to come down where im living to be closer to me and to study inshallah so please make dua that works out.
May Allah make it easy on me, sometimes it feels good to vent to strangers, I dont wangt to get mixed opinions I just want to be included in your prayers, because of the wonderful job you all are doing by listening to people out there who feel alone and cannot share their feelings and problems with those close to them.
As for those asking about my identity rest assured I am not living in Pakistan neither is the boy, I am not even Pakistani. I have no cousins around who would come over to sites such as these and most of them wouldnt have access to a computer where they can spend enough time to check through these things....but I dont want these type of questions asked again im not here to reveal my identity im just an anonymous poster who would like some emotional support and comfort.
Jazakallah Khair... please give me any more advice about how to rid waswasaa and how to put positive thoughts in my head and heart and how to cope with this all. I have picked up the Quran again Alhamdulilah and im reading tafsir again and it feels great i got those visions a few times again but i brushed them off and thank Allah their gone now..
I just need trust in my heart for Allah and for my cousin, i just find it difficult to cope with a person who has so many burdens and responsibilities in life i always think he may be upto something when its the burden of his family and money that worries him... I wanna do something once and do it right, I wanted him and Allah gave him to me i guess I have to try and cope with it, its a long distance r/s so trust issues are bound to happen... ontop he is my cousin and relative so inshallah thats one thing thatll keep him faithful INSHALLAH.
María M
Jazak Allahu Khairan, sister "me",
Nice to know about you, good that your mother knows about him and about your struggles, she will be the best of the advicers, insha´Allah, this way you will have her to support you, too, Alhamdulillah.
Related to imaan issues and evil whisperings, shaytan get jealous of us getting close to Allah(swt) and tries his best to miscarriage us and more times than we would like we step out of the straight Path, but He(swt) is always ready to help us with the smaller sign of trying to get closer to Him(swt).
Now you know in your own flesh how it feels to have all this negativity around, Alhamdulillah your mother has guided you. Thank God for her Presence in your life, Alhamdulillah.
This will be a, day by day, commitment, insha´Allah, but knowing that we don´t have anything for sure in this life, our life included then enjoy being alive and having someone that cares about you from Heart, Alhamdulillah.
There are simple tips to be positive and this will become an habit with time, have a healthy life (good quality of food, exercise), be grateful to Allah(swt) for all your blessings, enjoy being around your family, let them know how much you love them, help the others, ....all of this, little by little.
You are a strong woman "me", you are already taking the steps to put on a side all this distractions, Alhamdulillah.
Your salat, duas, Names of Allah and His Attributes, will help you too, insha´Allah.
From Heart to Heart,
IslamicAnswers.com Editor
dear is u r boy friend in khi pakistan ??? because the way u r telling u r story it seems like a boy frm karachi
plz tell and u from a smaller city of pakistan ? the strictness shows the culture plz tell
María M
As salamu alaykum, Unknown and sad girl,
Please, listen to Samina and respect intimacy, the important fact here is that you help the sister, you could be surprised of how many people seems to be the same and if you read the posts, many people feel so identified with some cases that they get deeply surprised, same situations, same enviroments,...We should focus on what is important and in this site the important is to be one for the others in moments of need, insha´Allah, Alhamdulillah.
The sister and the brother should be in your Heart and in your prayers, doesn´t matter who they are.
Be kind and loving towards those that open their Hearts to all of us looking for help, you may have some ideas to share to improve the situation, you will be more than welcome to share them with us.
It is in our hands, editors, writers, readers, that people comes to this site feeling secure and safe about their intimacy, we all need each other and all of us are vulnerable of suffering struggles.
All my Unconditional Love and Respect,
IslamicAnswers.com Editor
sad girl
are you from Pakistan some smaller city , and your boyfriend from Karachi ??
Does it matter where this sister is from uknown and sadgirl. Maybe sister doesn't want to tell people and she shouldn't have too that should be confidential for her safety. Back to this reply i agree with mariam advice reply w/salaams
sad girl
Assalaamu Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakaatuhu
i dont wanted to hurt you by asking your country
i frm iran , and i have many pak frnds in my uni
dey keep on telling me about da strories of there cousin
dats why i asked you becuse your story was quit similar to those stories , wanted to give u a good sugesstion
sorry for hurting you , i knw i shuld not have asked
really sorry i also have dis waswasa probleme i do this to get rid of it
When ever i get a waswasa/whispering from shaitan then i read Auzu Billaahi Minash Shaitaanir Rajim and it helps me alot
take care dear sis
Alaikum as Salaaam "Sadgirl"
Yeh i know how similar some peoples stories can be and people from Asia and MIddle East have similar cultures so usually the case scenarios. Thats fine Im not offended you probabaly just got excited for a moment, but thats fine Inshallah, thank you for your advice I also say Authu billah hi minashyaatnir rajeem. It helps alot Alhamdulilah.
May Allah keep you happy, wise and healthy inshallah.
Abu Az-Zubayr
innaalillaahi wa innaa ilayhi raaji'uun
the ONLY time when a man should weep, is out of the fear of Allaah and khushuu'.
NOT over a woman, especially when she is not halaal for him in the first place.
im sorry my sister if this post doesnt help you, but someone has to tell you the truth.
you are not halaal for eachother, and shouldnt even live/be alone together.
that is breaking the boundries of Allaah and no barakah may come from such a relationship.
saw a black cat in my dream...? what does that mean? and my mom was loving that black cat . that cat wanted to come in to our home and it entered finally..
what does that mean??
We are not qualified to interpret dreams here. Having said that, I would not recommend you to go seeking an interpretation of it, rather ask Allah to give you good and to protect you from evil. No-one knows the unseen but Allah.
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Couldnt read all of that sobby story, it was just too much. Advice: get a grip. You are extremely insecure and sound highly complexed. If the relationship is making you so mad, I suggest part ways. No man wld tolerate so much madness in the long run. If I were him, I wld have left you.


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The Australian 'Islamic State' terrorist followed the order of his beloved prophet about what to do with non Muslims or non believers or the Muslims who do not like the idea of terrorism. I am not surprised. They are going to convert the world to the land of Islam. The land of Islam will definitely be the land of killers.
I am going to attend World Humanist Congress 2014 in Oxford. I will get the opportunity to meet humanist scientists, philosophers, writers, intellectuals I admire so much.
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After a United Nations-run school sheltering more than 3,000 Palestinians was shelled early Wednesday, UN official Christopher Gunness could not contain his grief. He breaks down in tears on live TV.
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March 31, 2008
Let me see if I got this right. The Warner Music Group wants you pay for the kid down the street who downloads illegal MP3s. You will have no choice. You will be hit with a "surcharge" on your monthly ISP bill and, by the way, there will be no opt-in or out option. Get used to it because criminal gangs in expensive suits run the country. Caroline McCarthy writes for CNet News:
Hotels tack extra charges onto your bill when you raid the minibar–or if they're really mean, when you steal towels. If a new Warner Music Group executive gets his way, your Internet service provider will be billing you each month for music downloads.
Jim Griffin, Warner's latest top-shelf hire and the former head of Geffen Music, told Portfolio.com the details of a radical new strategy to deal with the record industry's 21st-century crisis. According to Griffin's plan, to which he said Warner Music is "totally committed," a monthly fee added to an Internet service bill–say, five bucks–could give consumers unlimited access to music that they could download, copy, and share.
He estimated that this could provide as much $20 billion per year to reimburse artists and copyright holders.
Griffin did not make it clear whether this would be an opt-in service, or whether customers of an Internet service provider would ideally all be charged even if they don't plan to download music. But, he said, he hopes that it would be much bigger than Warner, with the project eventually spun into its own company.
You know when corporate honchos say they are totally committed," they plan to "lobby" the government, that is to say spin the turnstile at the corporate whorehouse on the Potomac and throw around a load of money to get their way.
In addition to run of the mill corporate greed, the Warner Music Group wants to make the public pay for the fact CD sales are on the rocks. The so-called music industry tells us they are losing money because of mischievous downloaders and bit torrent criminals. In fact, the music industry is losing money because they no longer produce music people want to buy or less people want to buy. It also does not help that a new CD costs around twenty bucks, a lot of money to shell out for most people.
Music corporations are part and parcel of the monopoly mindset and the best way to hijack your hard-earned money is to pass another law — sort of like the mandatory auto insurance laws — that codifies and legalizes theft.
Of course, you don't have to have an ISP and an internet connection, same as you don't need a car.
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Motherhood After Tenure: The Legacy of the Freedom Riders
Last week I attended the 50th Reunion of the Freedom Riders, in Jackson, Mississippi, an event which honored the courageous men and women who rode buses and trains into the deep south to test a 1960 United States Supreme Court decision (Boynton v.
Last week I attended the 50th Reunion of the Freedom Riders, in Jackson, Mississippi, an event which honored the courageous men and women who rode buses and trains into the deep south to test a 1960 United States Supreme Court decision (Boynton v. Virginia) which outlawed racial segregation in interstate travel — and which became a pivotal point in the early civil rights movement.
My father, along with a group of other Cornell students, took a train from New Orleans to Jackson and was arrested on May 30, 1961. But what does this even have to do with "Mama, PhD"? Aside from being a meaningful personal experience for me, the reunion was a powerful lesson about what it means to be political, and about the power of personal stories.
My father died in 2001, so I went to Mississippi in his place. Not only to enact his return and allow him to be recognized by proxy, but also for a personal, selfish reason: I wanted to hear stories about my father. I knew I would be meeting people who had ridden on the train from New Orleans to Jackson with him, and who had been in jail with him. I've come to realize that listening to someone's stories is the ultimate act of love.
My father told great stories about his involvement in the civil rights and anti-war movements, but I remember his personal stories better: eating leftover food from rich students' plates while a scholarship student in college; losing his virginity and then being crushed when the woman dumped him; hitchhiking out west; becoming obsessed with food during a hunger strike in jail. Our parents' stories often wash over us; we hear bits and pieces and we think we know them all. I was very close to my father, so close that I assumed I knew all of his stories.
When I found out my father was dying, my boyfriend and I drove from Montana to New York in two days, so that we could spend time with him before his first (possibly disabling) surgery. That morning before taking him to the hospital, my boyfriend began asking him questions and got him to tell the story of being a freedom rider. I guess I had heard his account before, but it melted together with all of my father's political stories; he never presented it as his most significant political action and in fact downplayed his involvement. In listening to my father tell the complete story to a new audience, I felt like I was hearing it for the first time. He described how surprised he was when he called the CORE office and was told he could be useful; his terror when seeing a mob waiting for them in Jackson (which turned out to be reporters!), his conversations in jail with fellow prisoners about the role of religious faith in their political activism.
Last week in Jackson I heard other Freedom Riders speak eloquently of their fears and the profound sacrifices they and members of their families had made. This is the lesson I think we forget: that they risked something -- their lives, their reputations, and their jobs -- to be a part of this struggle.
I heard the stories of southern blacks who had been teenagers when they became freedom riders; from those who had been in the burning bus surrounded by an angry mob; from CORE organizers; from those who had been strip searched and put on death row at Parchment prison. But most memorable to me were the personal stories. Joan Mulholland told of a prison guard instinctively reaching to help her out of the paddy wagon upon arriving at Parchman Penitentiary, but then recoiling. She also explained her subsequent decision to leave Duke University in order to integrate the all-black Tougaloo College in Jackson.
Later that day, I heard Myrlie Evers-Williams at the unveiling of a commemorative plaque honoring her murdered husband. After the speech I witnessed an older white man standing in front of me suddenly recognize an elderly black woman. I couldn't hear all of their conversation, but I watched their obvious delight in seeing each other again (perhaps after 50 years?) and the unselfconscious way their hands entwined while they spoke.
During the excellent PBS documentary about the Freedom Riders, a message flashed on the screen asking viewers: would they ride the bus? A similar question was asked of the high school students who participated in the reunion in Jackson. While I understand the impulse behind the question, agreeing to ride a freedom bus fifty years later, after the civil rights movement has already been sanctified seems as meaningless as the Governor's apology. It's easy now to join the movement retroactively, but I know my father would have asked, what real risks are you willing to take today?
The stories that I heard in Jackson were the most significant and real part of the event, more powerful than any politician's speech or plaques or official statements. They demonstrated that this movement was made up of ordinary people who became extraordinary because of their willingness to act without a guarantee that their actions would prove triumphant.
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the problem I have is that it doesn't read the word "dollars" even though is before the '.'Code:#include<iostream> #include<string> #include<iomanip> #include<fstream> //for using files using namespace std; int main(){ int hours; double bill = 0; //total charge char package; string name, line; ofstream output_file; //to write bill ifstream input_file; //to display bill cout << "welcome to your bill.\nPlease enter your first name.\n"; cout << ">>"; cin >> name; cout << "select the internet package you have:\n"; cout << "Pacakage A\nPackage B\nPackage C\n"; cin >> package; package = toupper(package); cout << "enter the amount of hours you used the service: "; cin >> hours; switch(package){ case 'A': bill = hours <= 10? 9.95 : (9.5 + (2*(hours - 10))); //calculate price break; case 'B': bill = hours <= 20? 14.95 : (14.95 + (1 * (hours - 20))); break; case 'C': bill = 19.95; break; default : cout<< "you entered an invalid choice"; } //write data to file output_file.open("bill.txt"); output_file << name << "\n"; output_file << "you have package " << package << "\n"; output_file << "you have used " << hours << " hours this month\n"; output_file <<"your bill is " << bill << " dollars.\n"; output_file.close(); input_file.open("bill.txt"); getline(input_file, line, '.'); cout << line << endl; input_file.close(); return 0; }
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YoonA was given the title of "Shikshin" (Food God) in contrary to her small face and slim body. Nonetheless, people around her and even herself acknowledged it.
Recently, pictures of Yoona eating with huge appetite were published on an online community. These pictures, showing Yoona opening her mouth its maximum width and feeding herself spoonful of rice were taken from TV programmes and dramas.
Actress Kim MinHee once revealed on a variety show, "I met Yoona and Sooyoung at a restaurant. I found them really pretty when they first came up to me and greeted me. So I treated them to a meal. All 4 of them ate pork belly and when the bill came, it cost 210,000 won (about US$195)".
Yoona is then deservingly selected as the greatest 'Shikshin' among SNSD members. In response to this, Yoona confessed, "When I was at home and saw cereal during meal time, I told myself that I must eat another meal before eating that".
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INDIANAPOLIS -- NCAA president Cedric Dempsey vowed Thursday to change the ''culture of basketball.''
But a quick look at the newspapers made you wonder whether Dempsey had any idea what he was up against.
Thursday brought more news as the end of a newsworthy NCAA tournament approached -- and not just because the Final Four contestants brought more losses and a lower collective seeding than any teams since such rankings were used.
For openers, Cincinnati freshman DerMarr Johnson, suspended one game for accepting improper benefits earlier this season, became the latest big name to announce he was joining the annual exodus to the NBA.
Next, roughly 2 percent of the referees responding to a University of Michigan study said they made illegal bets themselves or knew of games in which gambling had a definite influence on the officiating.
And then just to bring the news closer to home, Florida star Mike Miller confirmed that he spoke with an agent named Andy Miller (not related) on almost two dozen occasions -- an apparent violation of Florida state law.
None of this deterred Dempsey, the $6-billion man. In his state-of-the-NCAA address, Dempsey outlined a number of proposals to clean up the scandal-plagued sport. Included were a redefinition of amateurism, helping Congress pass legislation to stop legalized gambling on college games, tighter restrictions on scholarships, and a ban on coaches dropping in at summer camps to evaluate talented high school players.
''I think the structure is available for those changes to be made,'' Dempsey said, ''if people participate and become involved in the changes necessary for the good of the game.''
A lofty goal, to be sure. But former Georgetown coach-turned-NBA analyst John Thompson probably spoke for most of the skeptics in the audience when he said afterward, ''It's kind of like the mouse talking about swallowing the elephant.''
And while there was no immediate reaction from most of those targeted for the sweeping changes -- the sneaker companies, street agents, gamblers, bookies, hangers-on and assorted other carnivores who feed off the college game -- Dempsey did manage to throw a good scare into the coaches gathering in Indianapolis for their annual convention.
''Every time we're restricted somebody else steps in,'' Jim Haney, executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, warned.
As much of the country found out this season because of a rash of highly publicized suspensions -- besides Cincinnati's Johnson, JaRon and Kareem Rush at UCLA and Missouri, and Michigan's Jamal Crawford also got whacked for varying lengths of time -- the ''somebody else'' takes in a diverse group of people.
It can be an AAU coach trying to steer a prospect to a particular program or an agent for his own personal gain, as the circumstances suggest in the case of St. John's Erick Barkley. His summer league coach was hired as an assistant by St. John's coach Mike Jarvis. In light of those circumstances, Jarvis' overheated reaction to Barkley's suspension -- comparing the NCAA with the ''Gestapo'' -- seems disingenuous.
On the other hand, when wealthy Kansas City businessman Tom Grant blasted the NCAA for its suspension of Oklahoma State freshman Andre Williams, it seems more than justified.
Grant's family foundation has helped pay the prep-school tuition for more than two dozen kids, only a few of whom went on to play college basketball -- and not one of whom wound up at Grant's alma mater, Kansas.
''It just wasn't right what they did to that young man,'' he said.
In the Barkley and Williams' cases, the improper benefits were tuition payments at a prep school in Maine that has become a kind of academic and basketball finishing school for promising students with poor grades.
The ''culture'' that Dempsey talks so energetically about changing will require new rules sensitive enough to recognize which kids are being legitimately helped by the system and which are there to help others take advantage of it.
So far, the crooks are running far enough ahead of the NCAA to make the cops look foolish.
''We have a lot of people who don't have the student-athlete's best interest at heart,'' Dempsey said.
Changing that seems like an impossible task. But the NCAA sold the TV rights for the tournament to CBS for $6 billion, and that buys a lot of confidence.
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Ubisoft is the blackhole from which Patrice cannot escape.
The publisher confirmed that Patrice Désilets, the creative director on the first two Assassin's Creed games, is officially back with the company. In January, Ubisoft purchased THQ Montreal from the collapsing publisher. Désilets was leading production on a game titled 1666 at that studio, but it was never clear whether he would return to work for his old bosses.
"We are very pleased to welcome Patrice to Ubisoft again and anticipate that this renewed partnership will produce new ideas and high-quality titles for Ubisoft's customers," a Ubisoft spokesperson told Polygon.
In addition to purchasing THQ Montreal, Ubisoft also grabbed the rights to 1666 and another title from the developer, codenamed Underdog. GamesBeat reached out to Ubisoft to determine whether Désilets will continue to focus his efforts on these projects or if it will have him once again take the helm of the Assassin's Creed series. We'll update with the publisher's response.
My guess? Assassin's Creed is on autopilot and Ubi is happy to let Désilets develop the publisher's next blockbuster.
Désilets started working at Ubisoft in 1998. Prior to taking the role of creative director on Assassin's Creed, he worked on games like Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Disney's Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers.
He left Ubisoft in 2010. In summer 2011, he announced that he joined THQ to oversee its new Montreal studio.


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European ETF survey 2013
Drivers of growth
The retail ETF market keeps growing, at a time when other investment structures are struggling to retain funds. European ETFs saw net inflows of US$7.0bn during the first half of 2012, a 5.1% annual growth rate.
We agree with survey respondents that this moderate—but not explosive—growth will continue. By our estimate, retail ETFs will grow to represent 25% of all European ETF assets over the next few years.
We see four key drivers of growth:
- Investor education
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- Regulatory changes
- Geographic expansion
Survey respondents view investor education—getting investors to make their first ETF trade—as the single most important driver of retail growth. A big promotional push by one or two large providers could unlock stronger demand.
As the market grows, niche promoters with innovative ETFs could also flourish. Promoters that differentiate themselves in a particular corner of the ETF market could earn higher fees (at least initially) and create greater customer loyalty.
Updated regulations should also give retail ETF sales a boost, albeit not overnight. The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) in the UK, and similar changes under Provisie Verbod in the Netherlands, will soon force financial advisers to charge upfront fees rather than relying on commissions, which benefits the ETF model.
For more information about geographic expansion as a driver of growth, see the "Global markets for European providers" section.
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February 4, 2013—Fearlessly Archived—Still a fun read, price & availability may have changed.
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The Eastern Conference, generally speaking, sucks. The top two teams (Pacers, Heat) are Finals contenders, and every other team is some sort of garbage sandwich.
The Trail Blazers, who play in the Western Conference, decidedly do not suck. They're first place in the West, and cemented their place as a true contender after last night's win against the Thunder. When you're riding high like the Blazers are, sometimes you get a little cocky, and tweets like this fall out:
Is it too late to join the Eastern Conference? Asking for a friend.
— Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) December 4, 2013
Boom, roasted. As if this wasn't bad enough, the Suns joined in:
Is it too late to join the Eastern Conference? Asking for a friend.
— Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) December 4, 2013
Oh ho! Remember: The Suns were picked to be one of the worst teams in the league this year. So far, they're 10-9, and would be the third seed in the East. That is not a typo, nor a joke.
But you know what? Last night, there were three interconference games — and the East won all three of them. The Pacers beat the Jazz (not surprising), the Cavaliers beat the Nuggets (sort of surprising) and the Hawks beat the Clippers (legitimately surprising).
There are no East-West games tonight, so we'll have to wait until Friday (when the Suns play the Raptors and Nuggets play Celtics) to see if the jinx has legs. But until then, here's a message from the Hawks:
Hey @trailblazers: Pass this on to your "friend" http://t.co/n3QDMRE74O
— Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) December 5, 2013
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Bring me to Life – Epilogue
"I still can't quite believe you're really moving," said Hermione, magically sealing the last box from the living room. The entire room was packed, and the only piece of furniture that remained was the sofa.
"I know," said Pansy, unable to hide her excitement. "Tomorrow, I'll wake up in my new house! I can't wait."
Hermione smiled. "I'm so proud of you, Pansy. What you're about to do is incredible. I know you'll be amazing."
Pansy sat on the sofa and looked around the room thoughtfully. "So much happened here," she said. "So many memories …" She sighed. She was leaving the flat she had first shared with Hermione and then Harry, stepping out into the world of responsibility. Pansy pulled her legs up and wrapped her arms around her knees. "I'm going to miss it."
Hermione gave Pansy's shoulder a gentle squeeze. "I'll go and fetch some tea."
Pansy nodded. She remembered the first night she'd spent in Hermione's flat, scared and absolutely sure that she wouldn't be there for long, that Draco would come and take her away. That one night turned into hundreds, and with Hermione's help, Pansy had made a full recovery. Since finally letting go on the same bridge where she'd thought to meet her end, she had married Harry Potter, completed her apprenticeship at the candy shoppe, and, finally, successfully landed real estate in Hogsmeade where she would open her own shoppe.
She and Harry would live on the main street in a quaint, two-story flat that sat above the candy shoppe. Pansy never would have imagined she could be happy in such a small place, but with Harry, she found she didn't care where she was.
Hermione returned and handed Pansy a cup of tea with two lumps of sugar and no milk. She sipped it slowly, relishing the feel of the amber liquid running through her, warming her to her toes. Snow was falling outside the window.
"The men will be here soon for the last load," Hermione said.
"Do you miss this place?" Pansy asked, meeting her friend's gaze.
Hermione smiled. "I did, very much." She paused. "At least, I missed what went on inside it. Living with you, the dinners we made, the parties, new friends …"
Pansy smirked. "I imagine you didn't miss it for long. The Manor, and its owner especially, surely proved to be … distracting, at the least."
It never failed that Hermione blushed whenever Pansy referred to her intimate life with Draco, even thought they'd been married for almost a year. Pansy always spoke as though she knew a secret in the matter, one that she dearly loved to skirt about but never actually say. Hermione wasn't even sure Pansy did it on purpose.
"Nevertheless," Hermione said, ignoring her friend's comment, "I missed living with you. Draco is wonderful, of course, but sometimes I missed our girl nights."
"We still have them," Pansy reminded her.
"Yes, when they're scheduled, planned, written on calendars, double-checked … I miss the spontaneous times."
"Me too," said Pansy, sipping from her cup. "As much as I love Harry …"
Hermione smiled. "It's not the same."
"Not even close!" said Pansy. She tipped the cup back, draining the last drops into her mouth. "Thanks."
"You're welcome." Hermione took the empty teacup and cleaned both it and her own before shrinking them and putting them into a Bottomless Bag for safe transport to Pansy's new house. "We'll still get together, of course."
"Naturally. Game Nights and dinner parties …" said Pansy. "Oh! I'll have to throw a housewarming party!"
Hermione smiled. "Any excuse will do."
Before Pansy could respond, they heard the sound of talking coming from the bedroom. They had set up a temporary Apparition station in the bedroom for the task of moving. It was rectangular in shape, and all of the boxes and furniture were placed within the rectangle. When activated, all of the items inside the space were transported to the other side, in Harry and Pansy's new house.
Within moments, Harry, Ron and Draco entered the living room, still in a heated discussion about Quidditch.
"It's Chudley's year, mate. Accept it now, or you'll just feel like a tosser by the end of the season," said Ron.
Harry groaned. "Are you back on the Cannons? We agreed with you twenty minutes ago!"
"All I said," Draco remarked, "Was that Everhard could pay a little more attention at his goal. He's doing well, but I think the recognition is getting to him. If he's not careful, he'll get cocky and slip up."
Pansy and Hermione looked at each other and simultaneously rolled their eyes.
"Last load," Hermione said, addressing the men. When their attention was on her, she pointed to the wall near the front door, where boxes were piled. "Just those boxes over there and the sofa."
"Yes, ma'am," said Ron, pointing his wand at a stack and Levitated it.
"Ron, be careful," said Pansy. "Don't be too hasty and drop something."
"Yeah, yeah," said Ron, distractedly. He'd chosen the tallest pile to move first, and it soon became clear that it would be difficult to keep control over the load. Harry joined Ron, using the same spell to steady the boxes, and together they maneuvered them through the flat and into the bedroom.
Draco watched amusedly, and then sat on the sofa between Hermione and Pansy. He put his arm around Hermione and pulled her close to kiss her solidly on the lips. She was so surprised that she responded, wrapping her arms around him and threading her fingers through his hair.
However, it was not the sleek, soft hair she was used to; instead, it was sweaty from the exertion of controlling boxes and furniture as he Levitated them through the air, carefully moving them so as not to disturb their contents.
Hermione pulled out of his grasp, a look of disgust on her face. Draco laughed. "Sorry, love. Forgot to warn you about that."
Then Hermione noticed that her husband also smelled as though he'd been moving all day. She wrinkled her nose. "A shower is your first priority when we get home."
Pansy laughed. "I was just about to tell you two to Conjure a bed and use a Silencing Charm, but I guess that won't be necessary, will it?"
As Harry and Ron returned down the hall, Draco leaned over to kiss Hermione again. She bowed her body away from him, but couldn't go too far because of the arm of the sofa. Draco kissed her lightly on the lips, so softly and deliberately, as though he only existed to brush his lips against hers, that she almost forgot that she had found him in any way unpleasant just moments before. When he pulled away, she missed the contact.
He smirked and stood up to join Harry and Ron.
Hermione followed his movements, then glanced at Pansy, who had a whimsical expression on her face.
"You'll visit, won't you?" she asked, fisting her shirt, as she did when she was feeling unsteady.
"Of course!" Hermione assured her. "Often. Nothing will change. You'll just be farther away, that's all. We'll have a lovely selection of new restaurants to try out when we come for a visit."
"Good. Do you really think I'm ready for this?" Pansy bit her lip, frowning. "Moving away from everything I know, opening this shoppe, running it myself …"
Hermione placed a reassuring hand on Pansy's arm. "Absolutely, I think you're ready. You and Harry need to have your own life, establish your family, outside of the context of Ron and me. And Draco. It's one reason I haven't been as easily accessible recently. Draco and I …"
"You're pregnant!" Pansy exclaimed.
"Whoa!" said Ron, who had returned to the room for more boxes, Harry and Draco trailing behind him. "Congratulations, Hermione!"
"No, I—"
"You beat us to it!" Harry exclaimed, rushing over to give Hermione an awkward hug that she didn't quite return. Then he looked at Pansy.
"Don't even think about it, Harry Potter," she said, folding her arms. "Not for a few years yet. Do you honestly think I'd consider it right now?"
"No, reckon not," he said, somewhat sheepishly.
Draco was still standing in the doorway, his wide, questioning eyes soldered onto his wife's face. He felt … blank. No, that wasn't the right word. He wasn't breathing; he didn't hear anything his friends were saying. All that mattered was what came out of Hermione's mouth next. He was surprised to find that he wasn't panicked; instead, he felt as though he were suspended in midair, waiting for the rush of gravity to pull him back down.
Hermione turned to him and saw him waiting. "I'm not pregnant," she announced, not taking her eyes from Draco's. "Pansy jumped to that conclusion for some reason."
Draco let his breath out, then walked purposefully across the room, took Hermione's face in his hands, and kissed her. The others were silent as they watched, stunned, feeling as though they shouldn't be witnessing the scene before them. When Draco released Hermione after the brief but intense kiss, he smiled. "I would have been all right, either way."
"Do you really think I wouldn't tell you first?" she whispered.
He straightened. "No, you're right. I wasn't thinking. I simply reacted."
Hermione gave her friend a pointed look.
"I'm sorry!" Pansy cried, a mischievous twinkle in her eye. "Sorry for the mess. I spoke without thinking or information."
When the men left the room, Hermione frowned at Pansy. "Why did you do that?"
Pansy shrugged. "I really am sorry. I … The truth is, I've been thinking a lot about … children, because I know Harry wants a family. I do too, of course. I simply wonder when we'll be ready, and if we'll know when we'll be ready. Will there be some kind of sign?"
"I have no idea. I think, perhaps, that as you think about it more and more, eventually it isn't so frightening an idea. When the idea of kids doesn't send you running and screaming, maybe then you're ready."
Pansy looked down at her lap. "What if I'm never ready? Honestly, I want a family. I just never imagined having to be the one to raise my children."
Hermione lifted an eyebrow. "Oh? Who did you expect would have that duty?"
"A nanny," Pansy replied without a thought. "Or at least a house-elf. What if I'm an awful mum? I don't know anything about raising children. I'll be terrible at it, I just know it!"
"What are you getting at?" Hermione inquired. "Where is this coming from? Are … are you pregnant?"
Pansy's eyes widened in fear. "Merlin, no! I'm still terrified of the idea!"
"Accidents happen though," Hermione said. "Sometimes you're not careful, you forget to cast the spell or take your potion …"
"No," Pansy said firmly. "I make sure I don't forget."
"Then why are you so worried about this now?" Hermione asked.
Harry, Ron and Draco returned then for the last load of boxes. Pansy waited until they were gone to speak.
"I've been thinking about it a lot, is all. Harry showed me some pictures of his parents last week, and he was so enamored with the idea of a family … It spooked me, I reckon."
Hermione smiled in understanding. "Don't be afraid. It's a natural part of life. You and Harry will make excellent parents."
"I don't know!" Pansy whispered, tears welling in her eyes. "What if I'm not? What if I'm a terrible mum?"
"Don't worry about this now," Hermione said calmly. "You've got time yet. Your relationship with Harry needs to grow, until you're more comfortable, more stable, more secure. Then you can think about children."
Footsteps announced the approaching men, and Pansy stood from the sofa, surreptitiously wiping her eyes.
"Ladies, we need that sofa," said Ron, his tone very official.
Harry and Draco moved the sofa while Ron barked directions. "A little more to the left … watch that corner! … Here's the hallway, now—careful …"
Hermione and Pansy stood facing each other, quiet until the men were gone. Then Hermione hugged Pansy, who cried into Hermione's hair.
"It's okay," Hermione assured her, surprised at the strength of emotions coming from the other woman. "You'll be great, I just know it." That only made Pansy sob harder. When the tears finally slowed, Pansy pulled away.
"Thanks," she said. Then she laughed brokenly. "I needed that. I just … my mother was never there for me. We had a nanny and a house-elf. I saw her at meals, and every thought I had, everything I did, was designed to get her to notice me, to be proud of me. But it was like I wasn't really there, like I was just … another ornament to her, something to make her look good for company, a doll she could dress up and parade in front of her friends. I don't want to be like that, but it's all I know!"
Hermione suspected that at least one of the men had come upon Pansy crying, and was keeping the others away, a gesture for which she was grateful.
"Pansy, there's no need to worry about this right now! I don't like seeing you think about this. You and Harry haven't even been married a year, together for less than two."
"I know that, but ever since last week, I've been seeing mums with their children. I mean, really noticing, you know? Watching the way they interact, talk to each other. I never had that with my mum."
"The very fact that you're thinking about this so much assures me that you'll be wonderful," Hermione said. "You don't want to be like your mum, and face it, it would require making certain decisions in order for you to begin down that path, and as long as you don't hire a nanny, you'll be fine. I know Harry won't buy a house-elf. So you'll be raising your children, just you and Harry." She paused. "Have you and Harry talked about this at all?"
Pansy shook her head.
"Maybe you should," Hermione suggested. "He didn't even have his own parents to raise him. He lived in a cupboard for eleven years! You two are going to be very interesting parents, at the least."
Pansy smiled at that. "I think we can do better than a cupboard," she said softly.
"Without a doubt. Are you better now?"
"Yes," Pansy replied, sniffing. She threw her arms around Hermione. "Thank you, really."
"That's what friends are for," Hermione said.
Game Night was hosted by Harry and Pansy the same evening they moved into their new home in Hogsmeade. The table was set up, chairs set around it, and the boxes in the kitchen were open, with unnecessary tools covering most of the counter space. Plates, cups, and flatware were retrieved, and since no one could make anything in the cluttered kitchen beyond a glass of water, food was ordered for take away from the Three Broomsticks.
Harry and Pansy, Draco and Hermione, Ron and Suzette sat around the table after beginning their final game of the evening, one that Suzette had discovered while on a trip to the States with her family.
"I call blue!" said Hermione, reaching for the bag of blue trains.
"White!" said Suzette.
Pansy quickly snatched the pink, even though no one else would have wanted that particular color. Draco took green, Ron red, and Harry black.
They talked as they set up the board, shuffling the cards and serving more food. Hermione noticed that Ron was behaving oddly all of a sudden, not talking to anyone and staring at the ground. She was about to say something when Suzette let out a gasp. Ron's head whipped around to her, his eyes intense and searching.
"Oh, Ron!" Suzette cried, holding something delicately in her hand.
Ron's face turned red, but he took Suzette's hand. All attention in the room was on the pair. "I … I'm not too good with these things," he said nervously. "But for some reason, I'd gotten in my head that asking you to marry me tonight, with our friends, was a good idea." The laugh that followed was anxious. "I'm not so sure now …"
Suzette practically leapt out of her chair to throw her arms around Ron. "Do you mean it?" she asked breathlessly.
"Yeah, course I do. I love you."
"J'taime! Oh, Ron, you 'ave made me so happy!" She pulled away, happy tears glistening in her eyes, and held the ring that had been in her bag of white trains out for Ron to place on her finger. "Would you?"
He grinned and, despite his shaking hands, slid the diamond onto Suzette's hand. Then she leapt onto him for another hug.
Hermione smiled as the others congratulated the pair. Harry was first, and then he went again after Draco, grinning as big as he had when he and Pansy had married. They seemed to move in slow motion, shaking hands enthusiastically, clapping shoulders before giving up all pretenses and embracing. Harry's eyes misted over a bit, and Hermione knew that he was thankful for his life, that all of his closest friends were happy and well. She thought of Ginny, whom they all dearly missed. Ginny would be proud of her brother, and equally happy to see her friends doing well.
That night, Hermione lay contentedly in Draco's arms, skimming her fingers lightly across his chest. His attention had been solely on her during their love-making, but now he seemed deep in contemplation, his thoughts far away.
"What are you thinking?" she asked, nuzzling closer.
He pulled her close and kissed her head. "You really want to know?"
"Of course," she replied, meeting his eyes with her own full of question. "Why wouldn't I?"
"Pansy earlier … at the flat. What was the matter?"
"Oh." Hermione propped herself on her arm. "She was struggling with the idea of becoming a mother someday. She didn't have the best childhood, or a good relationship with her mother, and she worried that she wouldn't be a good mum."
"Mmm," Draco mumbled, his brow creasing slightly. "My upbringing was very similar to Pansy's. I had a nanny and house-elf that cared for me, just like she did. We've talked a lot about our similar pasts."
"Are you worried you won't be a good mum?" Hermione joked.
Draco smiled slightly, then returned to the frown. "Not exactly," he said finally. "A good father though, absolutely. I worry about that. Look at the one I had. But … that's not what I've been thinking about. All day."
"What then?" She returned to lying beside him, her head nestled in the crook of his shoulder.
"Earlier, at the flat. When I thought, for those few moments, that you really might be pregnant."
"Oh," she exhaled, her own brow wrinkling with concern. "Were you upset?"
Draco pulled away from her just enough to look her in the eye. "Upset? That was the farthest thing from my mind! Why would you ask that?"
Hermione shrugged and Draco moved back. "Pansy and I were talking, is all. She's not ready to have children, and I've done some reading on the subject. There are a few different reactions people have when they learn they are going to be a parent. One of them is anger, another is fear. She's terrified. Since you mentioned the similar upbringings, I thought perhaps, at this point, you would share her sentiment."
"Quite the contrary. I expected to be petrified, frozen to the spot, feeling like my lungs were collapsing and my heart would break through my chest. But … that didn't happen."
He stopped, and she waited for him to continue. When it seemed as though he wouldn't, she spoke, softly. "What did happen?"
"I … I waited. It felt like an eternity. I wanted you to either deny or confirm the statement, and it seemed as if the entire room stopped existing except for you and me. The seconds seemed to stretch into hours, and I hoped … I found myself hoping, deep inside, that you really were. That it was true."
Hermione gasped and sat up, the sheet falling to her waist. "What?"
Draco stared at her, desire and something more evident on his face. "Of course, I didn't realize that until after you'd said it wasn't true, and I felt a strange, monumental disappointment. It went all the way to the heart of me."
"We haven't even been married a year!" she said, trying to ignore the heat from his eyes.
"I know that, love. It's been amazing so far. I simply wanted you to know how I feel, how I discovered it today. I'm not asking for us to start thinking about it, or trying." He shrugged and reached out to grasp the arm closest to him. "I'm ready, whenever you are. But I think it's an important thing for me, a big step. I love you, and I want to have a child with you," he said. "I want us to make a child together."
Hermione felt the sparks where his hand was slowly and lightly running up and down her arm. He'd given up not ogling, and stared at her, making his immediate wishes known.
She didn't want to be distracted; not yet, at least. "Draco … the thing is … I don't think I'm ready."
He smiled at her, the desire momentarily displaced by all the love he could channel into the expression. "I know. I don't expect you to be, just because I said I am. But I wanted to say it."
"Okay," she said, relief coursing through her. "I'd like a few years with just you, all to myself. Is that being terribly selfish?"
Draco smirked. "No. I quite like the idea, actually."
"Me too." She took his hand in hers and traced the outline of his hand, pausing when she reached the finger on which he wore his ring. "Just us …" she said softly, more to herself than to him.
He waited a few moments, then pulled her face toward his and kissed her. Hermione sighed into his lips, knowing what this kiss meant. It was slow, almost painstaking, as he plotted and mapped every inch of her mouth. When he pulled away slightly, she frowned.
"Patience, love," he chuckled. "I was thinking that, although we might not consider children for a while, that we should get in as much practice as possible, so that when the time comes, we'll be, ah, fully prepared."
Hermione grinned. "I love practice. It's a bit like homework."
At five minutes to close on Monday, November first, Pansy bid farewell to her last customer of the day. When the door shut behind the woman, a small bell chiming, Pansy sighed in contentment. The day had gone well, though, being her first day of business, she had nothing to compare it to. People had been in and out all day but she would worry about the sales sheet later.
Pansy walked around the small showroom, straightening the boxes on shelves, making sure all the merchandise was in perfect position for the next day—her second day. By the time she reached the door, it was closing time. She flipped the sign and used her wand to close the shutters over the windows. She had expected Harry to join her by now, but perhaps he had been kept late at his job.
She found she was thankful for the quiet moment by herself with her shop. It was hers. Sure, Harry had helped, put up the down payment and the capital for all of the equipment, but she had made it warm and welcoming. More importantly, she had created all of the delicacies on display for purchase.
Pansy picked up the paperwork from the day and a small bag of her most special chocolates, looked around the shop one last time, and turned out the lights, heading through the kitchen and up the stairs into the flat she shared with Harry. She was in a celebratory mood and Harry had never experienced the chocolate she held firmly in her grasp, a recipe of her creation that she had saved especially for this occasion. She smirked as she neared the door, knowing he would be in for quite a surprise.
Her last thought before turning the old doorknob was given to deciding what she should wear for him that night. Harry seemed to favor the red, but then they always ended up having more fun with the light blue.
She opened the door and found the room pitch black. Frowning, she flicked on a light and—
Pansy gasped, nearly dropping the things in her hands. Harry, Ron, Suzette, Draco and Hermione, along with a group of their extended friends, had shouted all at once.
Harry went to her, took the paperwork and chocolates and set them aside. "Congratulations on your first day of business, love," he said, kissing her cheek and slipping a miniscule box into her hand. "For … later," he whispered suggestively, causing Pansy to blush despite what she had been thinking just moments before.
Then she smiled and threw her arms around her husband. "Thank you!" she said, first to him and then to everyone in the room.
Harry released her and then Hermione hugged her. "We've got hors d'ouvres going now, and dinner will be ready in about forty-five minutes. You really had no idea?" she asked.
"No, none!" Pansy chuckled. "I'm completely surprised!"
Draco joined his wife and brought Pansy a drink. "I'm very proud of you, Pansy," he said appreciatively.
Pansy smiled. "Thank you, Draco. You'll have to stop by and see it. I'll give you a free sample." She thought about the special chocolates she had made and decided to make a few more batches to share. Hermione would thank her later.
They left and Pansy began speaking to her other guests. Suzette could talk of nothing but her upcoming wedding, while Ron looked as though he just wanted the bloody thing over and done with. Blaise Zabini was there with his most recent girlfriend, Hannah Abbott, though Pansy didn't miss the longing looks he sent Hermione all night. Poor Blaise, she thought. Hermione was a once-in-a-lifetime woman, and Draco had snatched her up. There was nothing Blaise could have done.
The evening was perfect, but Hermione began ushering everyone out right after dinner.
"Remember, Pansy—and all of you, I might add—have to work tomorrow. She needs her sleep."
Most of those present rolled their eyes, either visibly or internally, but Pansy didn't care. Hermione was doing what she thought was best for Pansy. However, Hermione didn't know that Pansy had no intention of turning in early, that she planned to spend the majority of her evening with her husband.
Finally, everyone was gone save Draco and Hermione. As she had gathered her cookware, shrunk it and stowed it in her purse, Pansy slipped two pieces of chocolate, wrapped in parchment, into Draco's coat pocket.
Hermione gave Pansy one last, long hug as they said their goodbyes.
"Thank you," Pansy said. "For everything."
"My pleasure," Hermione returned, slipping into her coat. "This … what you've done, is amazing. I'm so, so proud of all you have accomplished. Have a wonderful evening, and we'll be by the shoppe soon." She looked at Harry. "Hope you're ready for what she's got in store for you, Harry. Be sure to drink lots of fluids to keep up your strength. Night!"
With that, she smiled wickedly and walked out the door, leaving two confused men and a red-faced Pansy behind. Draco fished in his pocket for his gloves and found the chocolates.
"What's this?" he asked, starting to pull his hand and the candies out of his pocket.
Pansy grabbed his arm and shoved his hand back. "Just go home. One is for you, the other for Hermione. Enjoy." She pushed him, still confused, out the door and locked it behind him.
Harry was staring at her predatorily. "What's going on?"
She smirked. "It so happens that I have a gift for you, as well. Let's retire to the bedroom and we'll open, shall we?" She took his hand and the bag of chocolates and led him down the hallway. For the first time in her life, Pansy finally felt completely happy and content. She had a wonderful husband, great friends, and she was now the owner of a business where she produced confections and sweets that made people happy. Finally, her life was exactly where she wanted it to be.
End Notes: The game they played is called Ticket to Ride, available at boardgamegeekdotcom. It's designed for 2-5 players, but in this story, I decided they played a special edition, for more than 5 players.
Thank you to everyone who has stuck with this story through the long break and editing. I truly hope you've enjoyed this epilogue. Your reviews have been amazing and more encouraging than you can know! THANK YOU!


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BENGHAZI, Libya, June 22 (UPI) -- A Libyan judge who had ordered the arrest of the former regime's interior minister was gunned down in a drive-by shooting, security officials said Friday.
Jumaa Hassan al-Jazwi was shot Thursday as he headed for a mosque in Benghazi.
"Those who killed judge Jumaa Hassan al-Jazwi opened fire from their vehicle as he was heading to perform afternoon prayers," an official who declined to be named told Mideast Online.
The judge's slaying was confirmed by his son, Ali al-Jazwi, who said the shooting occurred near the mosque of Shaheed Ahmed Sharif in the city where the revolt that toppled Moammar Gadhafi began.
Mideast Online said al-Jazwi had ordered the arrest of Gadhafi's interior minister, General Abdel Fatah Yunes, who was later found dead under mysterious circumstances.


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Q. Former Boss With Blurred Social Media Boundaries: My former boss at a large West Coast firm is relatively new to social media. He is a likable guy, my dad's age, with a nice family. They hosted my own family for dinner—even for Easter—on many occasions over the years, and though we've moved on, my husband and I think of them warmly. As the former manager of my old firm's popular social media accounts, I remained online friends with my old co-workers; now I'm connected to many new co-workers and friends at my new company, too. My old boss "likes" and comments on every single thing I do online. Every. Single. Thing. He's far senior to me in our field and knowing him has proved beneficial to me professionally; I don't wish to offend him or worse, hurt his feelings. But now he's friend-requested my little sister and she is skeeved out. I've noticed he does this to other former co-workers, so this isn't an e-stalking situation so much as it is a weird, overfamiliar breach of etiquette that, I guess, isn't written yet. Do I say something? If so, what? I'm freely sharing these mild, not-too-personal things, and engaging with one another is the fun of social media. Just not, maybe, engaging with every single thing, at all hours of the day and night. Oh, and several people have approached me about this—folks from my old job who wonder if he's all right, and other friends asking who the guy squatting on my page is.
A: I'd say that this is e-stalking and this Dad has discovered that with one quick "friend" request he has an endless data bank of vacation photos (oh, those beach volleyball shots!), etc., where he can indulge himself while pretending he's only keeping up with young people in his field. Please tell your sister not to accept his super-creepy request; no explanation to him is needed. This is a delicate situation for you since he likely is a reference, and he holds sway in your field. I'm not up on the latest Facebook privacy settings, but you are a social media maven, so surely there's a corral you can put people in who you don't want to defriend but whom you want to have extremely limited access to your photos, updates, etc. Cordon him in there. Presumably he won't know what happened, but if he complains he can't see your fun pictures anymore, just explain there's a new setting for social versus work friends, and don't be bullied into allowing him full access.