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He watched her as she approached " Yousry ", another patient that seemed interested in her, but had a slightly different story.. The brain concussion that happened to him after an armed robbery caused a complete damage of his memory, and his wife couldn ' t stand to live with a husband who couldn ' t remember her name for one whole day.. And since his case was hopeless, she decided to get rid of him in this mental hospital..
“ Youssef” watched in pity " Yousry ' s attempts to get " Sarah ' s attention, but his main problem was not being able to express his feelings clearly.. So he got used to write in a note that he used to hold in his hand all the time.. Write in a paper, then cut it, before handing it to " Sarah " that does her best trying to read his shaky handwriting, before answering him with few words, while picking up a flower from the garden smiling, then he writes more in another paper that he hands her again and so on.. The problem was that " Youssef " knew that all of this will start again from zero tomorrow, as if they never knew each other.. " Yousry ' s memory wouldn ' t be able to keep all of these memories, but let ' s not rush things..
Feeling the place too gloomy, he decided to pull the curtains up, and while the golden afternoon sunlight invaded the place before his eyes and covered everything with a golden overlay, he watched the group sitting next to the wall as they separated silently.. He turned off the gramophone that was still on“ Edith Piaf " songs, to have little quietness to be able to concentrate with the patients.. Most of them seemed annoyed on closing the songs, specially " Sarah ", but she didn ' t comment..
He chose " Edith Piaf " songs because he noticed that the patients were mostly relaxed with her type of songs, which would be in the favor of the experiment, and he chose the gramophone, to complete the whole old distinctive character of the place, because he thought this would help calming them down, with almost nothing belonging to the present around.. Old songs.. Gramophone..