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Examples
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When I asked Fatemeh khanoom why she did not divorce him for he was useless and abusive to boot, she told me that she would lose face in her village if she went back for her yearly Nowrouz (Iranian New Year) visit without her husband.
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When she left to open her salon Shahin khanoom introduced her sister-in-law to replace her.
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She lived in the outskirts of Karaj further from the capital than Shahin khanoom in a rented house whose toilet was a shack at the bottom of the yard.
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Fatemeh khanoom had no experience as a house keeper but was hard working and proud.
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Roya khanoom was in her early twenties, a student in the last year of accounting at Tehran Azad University.
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Fatemeh khanoom never again refused to pay for his opium.
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I was going to bring it up to let her know that I had discovered her lie but decided not to when the next day Shahin khanoom came to me crying.
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She never missed a single day's work and was, unlike Shahin khanoom, very honest with a work ethic that seemed to belong more to New England than Kerman.
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Shahin khanoom knew everyone in our neighborhood of high rise apartments and was the one everyone came to when looking for help.
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Shahin khanoom was not overly devout, at least around us, never really proselytizing and more concerned about making a living than the nuances of Shiite Islam.
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