My parents were better Americans than just about anybody I knew, but they retained their traditional ways when it came to my brothers’ and sister’s and my getting married. They believed it was their job to choose our spouses. It was hard to argue with them. They came from a culture in India with a less than 1 percent divorce rate. They had come to a culture in America with a divorce rate of over 50 percent. There are important differences between America and India that account for this disparity, but my parents saw it as their duty to make sure that we married well. They believed it was their
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