I remember people who&#39;d had a lot of hardship during the war. They&#39;d thought we&#39;d won.

"Favour, is the result from your hospitable life'.

Apart from all this, I do of course have a real life. I sometimes have trouble believing in it, because it doesn't seem like the kind of life I could ever get away with, or deserve. This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.

Written By Jhumpa Lahiri

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