When we woke up that particular sunday, we both were pretty excited. A solar eclipse was going to occur that day around mid-noon. His mother had called us to give instructions to follow during the eclipse. Though we felt she was superstitious, we followed only to appease her. Hurriedly, we cooked and completed our breakfast. We quickly designed an eclipse viewer by watching a DIY video. The eclipse was about to begin. Huddled into a hug in the corner of our balcony, occassionally staring at the eclipsed sun through our device, we celebrated our first solar eclipse.
Today too is a solar eclipse. The pinhole camera is dusted and ready. But my sun is far away from my sight, ready to go to sleep, eclipsed by our distance, in lands far, far away.
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