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Why Abiy's P. O. V. I Left On The Bottle Essay
The Bottle Abiy’s P.O.V
“Do you promise to throw it?” I asked. He nodded and bid our parents adieu. He was leaving for the metropolis of Tel Aviv, and frankly I didn’t know if or when I would see him again. I knew better than to malign about his momentous decision to join the military and support Israel, because that was the only way for him to avoid imprisonment. My brother had been a terrible man with extremely little morals in his early twenty’s, feeding the government bogus checks to afford the exorbitant taxes that had been placed upon Israeli citizens.
Asad’s P.O.V
“Thanks for pushing me, I stepped on a bottle!” I glanced down and noticed the trickling blood, and reached to pull the
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It sounded like it had come for a close minded, surly old man. But instead of it dwindling my interest in Gaza, it forged it into a burning passion. I tried my best to feign a sense of humor. My response was very curt, but give assurance at the least. I sent a picture of myself, along with a funny caption.
Asad’s P.O.V
Abiy and I begin to correspond almost daily. She improved the drudgery which was my life. She opened my mind and heart to another realm, one in which I didn’t live in a shoddy cubicle of an apartment with warped walls. After emailing for a few months, I decided I would scale the wall that separated us. I knew if I were caught it would be a gunshot fatality to the head, but I ignored that and ventured out at dusk. I waited until all of the cars had passed, and all had quietened. I threw my rope over the eighty foot wall and began my climbing.
Abiy’s P.O.V
It was about 1 am that I heard the raspy scraping of a rock against my window. I opened the window and helped in a very frightened, very skinny shell of a man. “Asad!” I whispered as I looked down to his hands that were bleeding from what appeared to be a rope burn. I faked a smile for his sake and tried my best to console him, applied bandages, and retrieved tea for him. “It looks like you don’t have a flair for climbing, does it?” “This is the second time I’ve bled for you,” he joked. We fell asleep

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