Before she died, my grandma told me never to go back to my hometown to get married. She said that the brides in the village were not human beings. I didn't believe it until my best friend got married in my hometown and asked me to be the bridesmaid. On the day of the wedding, the whole village came and stood in the main room with smiles on their faces. Under the hijab, the bride is wearing the red dress that I loved most when I was a child. Grandma's voice rang in her ears: "Run quickly, they have found you."
