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  1. Newlyweds

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    / April 5, 2012 / 1 Comment
    He watched his new bride fold the laundry. Including handkerchiefs. Just like his mother. They were so alike. It was an embarrassing thought. Did men really end up marrying their mothers? He tried to dismiss the thought. “What do you love about me?” he asked. She smiled and said “You...

  2. Mommy, what’s a chicken?

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    / January 10, 2012 / 1 Comment
    At age five, I had gotten my first memorable mosquito bite. On a vacation back at India. The perpetrator had done a fine job on my wrist and the result was a big, red and ugly patch of raised skin. And in some remote part of my thoughts, I had...

  3. Two is a big number … relatively speaking

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    / December 28, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Maria Francis   I think I am finally beginning to understand Einstein’s ‘Theory of Relativity’. “Almost 12 years too late for that now, isn’t it Maria?” my Physics teacher would have asked. But hey, I got there. Quoting Albert Einstein, scientist extraordinaire – “Put your hand on a hot stove...

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