I wish I could wrap you up with
my mom's wedding saree and stick
a name plate on you to make you
my own, like I used to do with my
new books in school.

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"Mom, I've always found you
in the kitchen, don't you have a job?
Why don't you go to work like dad?
What's your profession?"

"I'm an artist"

"I never saw you painting"

"I painted this home of ours",
her mother smirked

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"What is it that does remind you of her?"
his friend asked

"doesn't," he corrected

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Uploaded Facebook profile picture
after a while.
All classmates reacted love,
she reacted Ha-Ha.

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I loosened my shoelaces
so that when I run to chase you,
I will fall.

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"Keep your mother, sister, daughter
indoors so that such an incident does not
happen to a woman again," the minister
said loudly during his speech.

'That 5 year old rape victim
cried in a corner for hours thinking that
now she won't get permission
to go out to play'

That day the tricolor
stopped waving in the air
for around 5 hours.

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"I think my time has come"

"Naah Daadi, you're still too young.
Don't go out or else all the old man of this city
will go crazy about you"

That was the last conversation we had.

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After a whole day
busy schedule,
he finally has some free time
to use mobile phone.

More than 1000 chats
in 'Friends Forever' group,

He had read all of them in
full excitement though
he was already exhausted.

Well, she was online
and did chatting there,
after many months.

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"Don't prepare yourself extraordinary
just to meet me"

"This is our first meeting,
I'll wear my best suit"

"As I like you, your clothes
won't matter for a moment, but if I start
to express my liking for your clothes,
there's no piece which will make you look
handsome"

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Wanted to borrow that painting
being the only one after its artists
to reach its depths.

Unfortunately,
I didn't have that status to borrow it,
So moved on.

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