Even when you are separated from people, you can keep them in your heart.  Parvana stays in Kabul to be closer to her father.  She stays when Mother, Nooria, Ali Myriam go to Mazer-E-Sharif.  She stays with Mrs. Weera because father might come out of jail.  This shows that Parvana keeps her father in her heart at all times.  Nooria is getting married in Mazer-E-Sharif.  Mazer-E-Sharif is a free place, where girls can go to school.  Instead of going to Mazer-E-Sharif and school, she stayed in kabul, to wait for father.  As Mother and nooria are getting ready(planning) The trip to go to Mazer-E-Sharif, Parvana says on page 135,  “We can’t leave Kabul what about father?  What will happen if he gets out of prison and we are not here?  He won’t know where to look for us.”    This shows that parvana will forfeit something amazing for someone.  That shows that even when she is separated from father she is keeping him in her heart.