Life Behind the Veil - Laetitia Zeeman
As a young girl, I was so inspired by the story of Esther and the beautiful picture in my children’s bible. I would look at it for hours, day dreaming about how someone will one day come and rescue me to take me to a harem (without knowing what the word “harem” actually meant) and how I will be chosen and after being chosen, my veil will be removed and we will live happily ever after. In my imagination, I would be dressed in beautiful shades of blues and purple. I also remember playing with my friends or cousins. I will be captured, locked up in a tower and the prince (my cousin) will come and rescue me and take me to his harem and then he will choose me. In my mind the word “harem” simply meant “women’s quarters” in a castle. Funny thing is the moment my prince (cousin) took me to his “harem” neither one of us would know exactly what needed to happen next and then the game was getting boring. Once you got saved and tak...