“Every Tuesday and Thursday, when your appa came in, he’d say, ‘Rekha, something came up unexpectedly for the talaiver and he left the office, so I took my chance to get away for lunch.’ But you know why your appa came home? It wasn’t for lunch. He never cared for food. He would have starved if I didn’t make him eat. No, he came just to see me, Ravi. Just so we could 32sit together, and he’d tell me about his surgeries while I made him eat a small lunch. No matter how many times we ate like that together, and for so many years, he always acted as if that day’s visit was special because he
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