ONE ETERNAL SMILE, TWO SECRETS, TOO MANY REGRETS,
AND A LIFETIME SETTLEMENT
“Hello Ram”
“Yes Mom”
“Mouni is here… When are you coming? This time you should meet her... She always complains about you. It's long time since you last met her”
“Yea... let me see this time around mom”

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"Hi my Romeo… Am leaving within a week are you coming?"
“Hey Lady Macbeth...When did you come home? ”
“I came here last week, will be off by next Monday and I know your mom told you everything”
“Don’t hurry…I can’t come within 2 days’ notice ok? May be next week…a tour is coming up… Try delaying by another week if you are so desperate to meet me...By the way how you managed to call me this time!!?
“Look Romi I can't wait for you…Come within two days ok?”
“Let me try...Hey, hey, what about your plan for settling back home?”
“Am interested, you know am your type...but Papa goose and gooselings are not… So this time WE ARE MEETING without fail”
“ Hello, I can’t come like this every year ok? Am a busy man…Not a sitting duck at home like you”
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She's been a close friend of mine, in fact, the closest…ever since my school days...Then all the way through college... (There were no secrets between us… She tells me everything…but did I tell her everything?!!)
Then I left home for job, roaming pan India... Sometime later during those days I lost her contact...and through some oldies I knew that she lived in Europe with her lovely husband and a bunch of three cute girls...
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We all would like to return to our roots once the prime age is crossed and when we become feeble both mentally and physically...
Though we might have spent considerable share of our middle age in a foreign country, the longing for mother land grows ever stronger when we see our off springs begin to think and behave like natives to this new land…
Slowly deep within, we feel more and more alienated… You long for the place and space where you had spent all your beautiful carefree childhood ...Your nostalgia...that gave you warmth and made you comfortable in the days of personal turmoil...
A call from your dear ones...or a message...worked like a shot to revitalize you...Sometimes breaking you into tears…
You appreciated a million times that the vibes you received from them were unconditional and natural...
I personally had been in the situation and had seen many people like me when I was abroad for a few years, to establish a new branch for my company...
Mouni too was no different…
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As planned I reached in time just before she was about to leave…Her vehicle was waiting..
As usual there were a lot of people to see her off...
Very bubbly powerhouse of a woman that she was...
She had promised me to meet...So did I
Her husband recognized me at once (might be from the photos she had shared with him)... He clasped my hands closely and ushered me to the sit-out of the house...
Eldest of the cuties put up a forced smile and asked "you are Romeo...right?"I couldn't stop smiling...”She never stops updating you all, eh?”
“Am I late? Where’s she?”
“You are in time”
One of the old members announced. " It's time to leave..."
Friends and relatives stepped aside...
She was accompanied by her father and brothers...
I saw her...after so many long years...She was still bubbly...She was smiling at me...
Her smile could not conceal the naughtiness she always tried to hide...
“Hi lady... How are you? I thought I wouldn't be able to meet you…”
I hushed myself. It’s no time to talk...
She kept smiling...A smile that was eternal...If not were she my closest friend, she would have been my wife…I never told her
Papa goose and gooselings entered the vehicle and then she was helped in...I bade goodbye and that was the last time I saw her...In fact everyone....
It was exactly one year back...
I didn't know she suffered from a crippling disease...She never told me
I remembered her today because it’s her first death anniversary…
Finally Mama goose settled forever in her homeland!!!
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Fiction
1. A Cocktail of Emotions: The Foul Smelling Man on a Train
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWTMYGBK - A Cocktail of Emotions: The Foul Smelling Man on a Train (ebook)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZHYCHWM - The Foul Smelling Man on a Train (Paperback)
2. A Cocktail of Emotions 2 : Summer Rains
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRJ54SBQ - A Cocktail of Emotions 2 : Summer Rains (ebook)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTYM4JTK - A Cocktail of Emotions 2 : Summer Rains(Paperback)
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