Jhumpa Lahiri Quote
Be sure to keep my ruby choker and the pearl and emerald set for the person you will marry, she said during one of these walks. I’m not planning on getting married any time soon, I told her, and she said that she wished she could say the same for dying. Ultimately, I disobeyed her. After she was gone I was unable to open up and examine the contents of all those flat red boxes she’d kept hidden in a suitcase on her closet shelf, never mind set something aside for the sake of my future happiness.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Be sure to keep my ruby choker and the pearl and emerald set for the person you will marry, she said during one of these walks. I’m not planning on getting married any time soon, I told her, and she said that she wished she could say the same for dying. Ultimately, I disobeyed her. After she was gone I was unable to open up and examine the contents of all those flat red boxes she’d kept hidden in a suitcase on her closet shelf, never mind set something aside for the sake of my future happiness.
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