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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 ..