Acha, so much gets 'finalised' in that first meeting that isn't said aloud over the chai, yaar. The uncles talk politics, the mothers discuss food recipes, but everyone's eyes are noticing everything else—how respectful the boy is, how the girl serves snacks. For my sister, they decided the wedding date was too soon just by how my father's silence lingered after their father joked about dowry. My balcony view of the railway colony taught me we watch the tracks for what's coming, not the train already here.
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