Called Amma to find out that she'd been sick and feverish for two days.
Sick since she got home from Benares; since she bathed in the Ganges with its famed sin-eliminating waters and decomposing corpses downstream.
She said she only meant to take a token dip but ended up doing nine. She said she swallowed some of the water.
In the last month two childhood friends have told me that their mothers died--one six years ago and C did not make it back to the funeral, the other one month ago on account of which S wasn't celebrating her birthday this month. I loved these "Aunties"--I loved their food, their style, their staunch support of their daughters. I yearn for a chance to tell them this.
I wonder when I'll see my own Amma again.
The kids called Amma this morning to yell "Get well soon, Ammama."
It's only been two months since I was in India.
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Sick since she got home from Benares; since she bathed in the Ganges with its famed sin-eliminating waters and decomposing corpses downstream.
She said she only meant to take a token dip but ended up doing nine. She said she swallowed some of the water.
In the last month two childhood friends have told me that their mothers died--one six years ago and C did not make it back to the funeral, the other one month ago on account of which S wasn't celebrating her birthday this month. I loved these "Aunties"--I loved their food, their style, their staunch support of their daughters. I yearn for a chance to tell them this.
I wonder when I'll see my own Amma again.
The kids called Amma this morning to yell "Get well soon, Ammama."
It's only been two months since I was in India.
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