Parvati stands in devotion, but I stomped my feet so hard that I cracked the Earth with my heel. I deserved the title, a fact my father would repeat to me in a wide variety of tones as I moved through my relationship. “You got what you wanted!” Papa said in glee after the wedding. “But, you got what you wanted?” Papa said when I told him I didn’t think the marriage was working. “You got what you wanted,” Papa said in quiet panic when I called crying because I knew I had to move out. On my wedding day, my relatives brought me the same blessings we used to bring Parvati, laid out on a thali:
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