![]() It seems kind of rash, but he's probably got to get out of Afghanistan. Assef says something to the effect that Amir is really his twin, not Hassan's, even though Hassan and Amir nursed from the same breast. That night Amir dreams Assef is standing in the doorway to his hospital room. Amir and Sohrab play panjpar the whole next day. A nurse's assistant helps Amir walk around.Sohrab tells Amir that his father, Hassan, said Amir was "the best friend he ever had" (23.97). Amir and Sohrab play a card game called panjpar.Farid goes off to look for Thomas and Betty Caldwell, the American couple in Peshawar who are supposed to adopt Sohrab. He and Farid agree that the sooner they get out of Afghanistan, the better. Amir takes a look at his face in a mirror the nurse hands him.Amir gets a much-needed morphine injection. ![]() Finally, Rahim Khan tells Amir he's left him some money in a bank in Peshawar. ![]() Rahim Khan opens up a little about Baba, too: how much Baba loved Amir, how hard Baba was on Amir, how Baba couldn't love Hassan openly.He also says he's ashamed he and Baba didn't tell Amir that Hassan was his half-brother – that they lied for so many years. So Rahim Khan knew about the rape all along. Here's the important stuff from Rahim Khan's letter: Rahim Khan says Hassan told him a few days after the alleyway incident what happened.Farid tells Amir that Rahim Khan has left him a letter. Amir formally meets Sohrab – the showdown at Assef's didn't really allow time for chitchat. Assef broke a few of Amir's ribs, punctured a lung, split his upper lip in two (there's a nod to Hassan's harelip), and more. Amir is awake long enough to add names to some faces and figure out what's going on.Amir realizes that he is actually wrestling the bear. Amir even imagines he's in the Sulaiman Mountains with Baba.Beeps, the faces of his nurse and doctor, Farid, and memories of Soraya. He remembers riding in a car with a boy (Sohrab) and someone who's driving way too fast (Farid).
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