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Don__ you understand? It__ forbidden, Aladdin! We jinn must abide by many rules, but first among them, most important of all, we must never fall in love with a human!__e catches his breath, swallowing hard. __nd do you always follow the rules?_____ Casting my gaze skyward, I draw a deep breath, searching for words among the stars. __t__ not about that. Do you know what kind of destruction we would cause? Have you not heard the story of your own people, how their city was destroyed, how thousands died? It was not hate that sparked the war between your people and mine, Aladdin. It was love. I held hands with Roshana the Wise and called her sister, and those words set our world on fire!__here it is. My greatest shame, laid bare. The truth lies between us like broken glass. Surely now he sees what I truly am: a betrayer, a monster, an enemy. Aladdin stares at me, his face softening.__hat wasn__ your fault,_ he says. __oving someone is never wrong. And like you said, it__ not a choice. It just happens, and we__e all helpless in its power.___hat doesn__ change the fact that the consequences are disastrous. As the poets say, shake hands with a jinni, and you shake hands with death.
Jessica Khoury The Forbidden Wish
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Don__ you understand? It__ forbidden, Aladdin! We jinn must abide by many rules, but first among them, most important of all, we must never fall in love with a human!__e catches his breath, swallowing hard. __nd do you always follow the rules?_____ Casting my gaze skyward, I draw a deep breath, searching for words among the stars. __t__ not about that. Do you know what kind of destruction we would cause? Have you not heard the story of your own people, how their city was destroyed, how thousands died? It was not hate that sparked the war between your people and mine, Aladdin. It was love. I held hands with Roshana the Wise and called her sister, and those words set our world on fire!__here it is. My greatest shame, laid bare. The truth lies between us like broken glass. Surely now he sees what I truly am: a betrayer, a monster, an enemy. Aladdin stares at me, his face softening.__hat wasn__ your fault,_ he says. __oving someone is never wrong. And like you said, it__ not a choice. It just happens, and we__e all helpless in its power.___hat doesn__ change the fact that the consequences are disastrous. As the poets say, shake hands with a jinni, and you shake hands with death.

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