savaris

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But in the back of those savaris we got so close that I felt the heat coming from him.

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Going back home late at night after a movie or a meal, we would squeeze into full-to-bursting savaris (shared taxis), and there, in the back of the spluttering cab, I would find myself pinned tight against him and feel his heart beating as fast as mine.

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It would be years before we finally kissed but those late-night journeys in the savaris left us breathless and elated.

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Traditional tonga-savaris ride into history in Lahore

Bloggers.Pakistan 2008
After months in Iran as a lone woman, she had also acquired an aggressive stance to deflect the unwelcome attentions we faced daily here, from suggestive comments on the streets, to being felt up by strangers in crowded savaris to being stopped on mountain trails by moral police perplexed to know how a woman thought she could do anything alone ( "Ladies, where is your man?" we had been asked several times on a recent hike together).

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