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16–SD[1], Bedian road,

Lahore Cantt,

Pakistan.

-        All the houses around it were exactly the same.

-        White gate.

-        A small garden to the left.

-        Two steps to the main door.

-        A hallway.

-        This is the living room.

-        To the left is another hallway, separated by an arch.

-        That is the drawing and dining room.

-        Kitchen to the left after the dinning room.

-        Opposite the dining room, within the premises of the living room,  a staircase going up.

-        The first two-storey house, I ever lived in.

-        Opposite the kitchen, beyond the staircase, is my brothers’ bedroom.

-        Stairs, landing, turn left, more stairs.

-        To the right is the sisters’ bedroom.

-        After which, there is a door to the storeroom.

-        Straight ahead, is the door to my parents’ bedroom.

-        Right opposite the storeroom, is the door, leading to the terrace outside.

-        Rehman was the name of our cook.

-        In the living room downstairs, the fat brown Sony T.V sits in a corner, atop a wooden table.

-        The hexagonal top of this dark-brown wooden table is supported by a single leg in the middle.

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[1] 5/13 houses that I have lived in, to this day. The second house that I have any memory of.

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This is the house, i was born in.
But have no memory of.
The floor plan is based on a description sent by my brother, over email.
A brief description. A line and half, long.

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7-C[1] Zargoon road,

Quetta Cantt,

Pakistan.

-        A white wall and an exposed brick wall, take turns to form the boundary of the house.

-        The white walls protruding a few inches forward.

-        Black gate.

-        This black gate is placed somewhere in the left half of the front wall.

-        Lawn on both sides of the drive-way.

-        Bricked drive way, or was it concrete?

-        Car porch at the end of the drive-way.

-        The drive-way makes a bend to the right, just before the porch, and extends itself to cover the front/width of the house

-        Two (or was it three?) steps to the veranda.

-        The veranda covers the entire width of the house.

-        The veranda is supported by four pillars. Two at the corners and one on each side of the steps.

-        An entrance door, right in the center.

-        A long corridor.

-        To the left is a door leading to the drawing and dining room.

-        To the right is a door leading to my brothers’ bed-room. Inside my brothers’ bedroom is the storeroom, right across their toilet. Oddly enough, you have to pass through my brothers’ bedroom to enter the living room.

-        At the end of corridor is my parents’ bedroom.

-        Right outside my parents’ bedroom, is the telephone.

-        The telephone is white and the digits are arranged in a circular finger wheel. For each digit, the finger wheel is rotated from its original position, all the way to the right, until it stops.

-        To the left side of the telephone is the passage to the kitchen.

-        To the right of the telephone, is another small corridor.

-        This small corridor has a door on the left, which leads to the third bedroom, the sisters’ bedroom.

-        The kitchen has two doors.

-        One leading to the pantry. The pantry is small and gets no air or sunlight.

-        the other, leading to a small garden outside and then the servant quarters.

-        Somewhere in this house, was a vegetable garden.

-        I forget where.

-        Certainly not in the garden outside the kitchen, where it would have made most sense.

-        Certainly not in the front garden.

-        It was either in the area on the side of the house, opposite the garage.

-        Or, the area behind the house. Where my brother and I, spent the afternoons catching butterflies and then leaving them to slowly die, in air-tight jars.

-        Under my brother’s influence, I also shot sparrows. Which were then handed to the bald cook. He grilled them for our late-afternoon snack.

-        I tried not to play with girls or dolls, fearing that it won’t sit well with my brother’s taste.

-        In the pantry the cook and I played in secret.

-        The fat brown Sony T.V, sat in the tiny square living room facing the wall with the window.

-        Outside the window, hung the grape vine, on which purplish-black grapes appeared once in a while.

-        In the drawing room, the narrow but long print of a Japanese painting, hung in the corner of the wall with the arch.

-        This archway leads you to the dinning area.

-        Everything in the drawing room was either grey or black, including the grey aluminum frame of the Japanese print.

-        Except a table.

-        This table sat in the corner, in front of the long narrow Japanese print.

-        The hexagonal top of this dark-brown wooden table is supported by a single leg in the middle.

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[1] 4/13 houses that I have lived in, to this day. The first house that I have any memory of.