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Adel's problem

"Go on, tell Abah" I heard Salmah tell Adel. Immediately, alarm bells started to go off. Tell me what? "Tell Abah your problem" Sirens were adding to cacophony in my anxiety at what was going to come next. What did he do? Was he in trouble? Did he break something? And so, hesitantly at first, he started telling me what he had told his mother in confidence. He was in a dilemma. He had two friends at school what wanted to play with him every day, at the same time. What?? I thought. That's it?? He continued - he didn't know what to do. Normally he set a challenge for his friends to see who got to play with him, and it seems like every single time this one particular one kept winning. Leaving the other one in the lurch. So?? I asked. Why not play with them at the same time? Adel murmured something that I couldn't quite hear. I was getting a bit impatient as in my mind I had more important things to do. I was in the middle of editing a