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had introduced him to drinking tea to relax, it had been an everyday
occurrence when

he had been growing up. He had always been able to sit down, after school,
with a cup

of spearmint tea and hot toast. Not that the tea had done all the soothing,
his mother

had always made herself available to talk to him. She had always seemed to be
in the

kitchen when he had come home from school. They had lived in London, England,

where his Father had worked as a professor at Bagorn University.

His mother had listened to him until he had finished everything that he
ever

wanted to say. She would sit near the kitchen hearth, her long dark hair
pulled back

into a braid. She had been endlessly patient with him, and she had always
been there

when he needed her, until now. She was gone now. He would never see her

expressive brown eyes again as he talked to her, that was a thing of the past,
he would

never see her again. Two years ago she had died of pneumonia, in London.
 His Mother hadn't belonged in England, and he resented his Father for
not

taking her home to Alexandria, but it was all in the past. Even his
grandparents were

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SandShadow © 1998
By
Suzanne Nikolaisen
dead. He had no family in Egypt, he was alone.

The condominium smelled faintly musty, as though it were full of the
same

ancient air that had remained locked in the formidable pyramids for centuries.
He