In fact, if I am not mistaken, only one other person from our batch of forty-five bagged this salary. When she scaled up her guess to 30k, I grinned and asked her to go higher. ‘More than 30?!’ she squealed. By now she thought I was just faffing as, in her own innocent world, nobody could ever draw such a salary, let alone ‘go higher’ than that. So she finally gave up. When I told her that I got a grade of A+ and that meant 60,000, I was greeted by silence and then incessant screams. That was a particularly memorable moment for the both of us. And I believe that was the last time we discussed
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