WORDPLAY July, 2013 | Page 11

You look at her fake profile picture and wonder about this creature called Emmie. You send her a Friend Request. You wonder about the secrets of a character who posts photographs smeared with colors like that. You browse her photos and her personal info looking to solve the enigma.“ In the beginning was Facebook” For months you ‟ ve been exploring the highways and byways of Facebook in search of a friend. Not a friend in the usual sense. No. You ‟ ve been searching the fake profile pictures and false personal info for a person to change your life. Screw boredom You eat bored. You watch TV bored. You play soccer bored.
You go out with the few friends you have left. You argue with your Dad. You ride the Metro. You walk the streets. You look at the sky. Every day of your life the same boring things happen. Boredom is killing you. So you go to sleep only to wake up feeling bored. To begin with you tried to get to know foreign girls living in Egypt. The American and German Universities are fertile ground for your fantasies of exciting babes— rich, beautiful, eager for sex, maybe even as far as getting high. You know that most foreigners who come to Egypt are not among the well off in their countries. They ‟ ve come to study and live for less. Still, even poor foreigners are very rich in this country.

You look at her fake profile picture and wonder about this creature called Emmie. You send her a Friend Request. You wonder about the secrets of a character who posts photographs smeared with colors like that. You browse her photos and her personal info looking to solve the enigma.“ In the beginning was Facebook” For months you ‟ ve been exploring the highways and byways of Facebook in search of a friend. Not a friend in the usual sense. No. You ‟ ve been searching the fake profile pictures and false personal info for a person to change your life. Screw boredom You eat bored. You watch TV bored. You play soccer bored.

You go out with the few friends you have left. You argue with your Dad. You ride the Metro. You walk the streets. You look at the sky. Every day of your life the same boring things happen. Boredom is killing you. So you go to sleep only to wake up feeling bored. To begin with you tried to get to know foreign girls living in Egypt. The American and German Universities are fertile ground for your fantasies of exciting babes— rich, beautiful, eager for sex, maybe even as far as getting high. You know that most foreigners who come to Egypt are not among the well off in their countries. They ‟ ve come to study and live for less. Still, even poor foreigners are very rich in this country.

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