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“So we smile and pretend like nothing happened even if we admit to the truth,” Kulsoom finished sadly.

— Sadaf Shahzad, Broken Strings
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Broken Strings

by Sadaf Shahzad

Contemporary Fiction · 40 pages

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Themes Truth Humour

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Sadaf Shahzad
Sadaf Shahzad

One of the most random contradictory people you will ever meet, I love trying anything and everything I am remotely good at. My true loves are Chemistry, reading and writing fiction, beauty bloggin…

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