By BOTHAYNA AL-ESSA
Translated from the Arabic by SAWAD HUSSAIN

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In those days, everyone had the right to have feelings.
It was natural to feel things, and the right thing to do about your feelings was to make them known. Feelings were plenty, but broadly they were segregated into two groups: Love and Fear.
In those days, there was only one way you could sin: by faking your feelings.