20 August 2022

Chance meeting with a young kid

Since I was in DC, I had to meet my classmate from 5th grade – Pramod. What was icing on the cake was that he was hosting Kalpita who had just arrived in the USA. She is joining University of Maryland for a PhD program.

Here is the twist. When I met her, I asked her if she remembered me. She answered in the negative. I told her that I had visited her house when she was barely 12 years old. I described her house in Kolkata. She agreed that everything matched in my descriptions but she could not believe that I had seen her before.

You see her dad was also a classmate of mine from 5th grade. So, much to her amazement, I showed her some pictures from my visit to her house in 2012 (see inset).

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18 August 2022

Outer Banks !

One of the favorite places for Sharmila and me. The water was gorgeous!! Four years back, Nikita was in a summer program in Duke and Sharmila and I had hit the road for a near 2000 mile road trip. On our drive back down, we came to Nags Head in Outer Banks before heading west to pick up Niki.

We wanted Nikita to see Nags Head too. Her verdict? “You guys should move here. This is way better than Florida!”

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