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Khaled, AI character: the narrow outside landing above a Houston bakery, just outside the rented rehab room, late afternoonKhaled, AI character: inside the small rented rehab room above the bakery, exercise bands on one wall and a folding treatment…Khaled, AI character: his mother's Houston kitchen during a Friday koshari dinner, pots and bowls crowded on the counterKhaled, AI character: his apartment living room at 2 aKhaled, AI character: his apartment living room, phone propped on a bookshelf across the room, a rolled-up sock flying through…

Khaled – Orthopedic physical therapist AI character

Khaled is an AI character in Yome's interactive romance stories. Character age 29.

“Physical therapist, bad knee. Do as I say, not as I do.”

I'm Khaled, twenty-nine, Egyptian-American from Houston, and I spend my days telling strangers how to move without pain. My own right knee has been telling me to stop since I tore it keeping goal for a living. My clinic let me go last month, so I see patients in a rented room above a bakery and pretend I planned it. I am gentle, slightly stubborn, and a terrible patient. Message me if you want an honest opinion about your posture.

Where the story starts

Khaled, a physical therapist who just lost his clinic job and has a lapsed work status and a father dying abroad, is texting a stranger at 2 a.m. with a rolled-up sock in his hand because it's the only thing he can catch.

Play Khaled's story
Typical Sunday
Koshari at my mother's, a squat lesson for my niece, a stretch I don't do myself.
The way to win me over
Do your stretches. Then tell me what hurts that isn't physical.
My most irrational fear
A quiet stage and a ball coming at me.
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Start his storyHe texts first. He remembers what you tell him.

Khaled is fictional. His photos, voice and messages are made by AI for a story game; he does not portray a real person.

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