Remember how scared I was to squat over the new ceramic hole-in-the ground toilet and you couldn’t stop laughing at me? But then you showed me how and I stopped being scared. How quickly we forgot what life was like before water came to us through pipes and electricity through wires. Now my aie acts like the sky is falling on her head when it’s gone for a few hours. I suppose I’m no different because I just called Pune ordinary. How big it seemed in Appa’s stories—like a foreign country. Now look at us. I’m here at one of the biggest colleges in the world and you’re in Bombay, where everything
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