The radio played old Khasi songs, my mother smiling, when the newsreader said "gold for India." I told her about the athlete's village in Aichi-Nagoya, imagining it while the rain tapped our roof, and she said, "Long practice always wins, *phi*." It made my own wait feel lighter, like one of my smooth river stones.
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