The kitchen is steaming with sweet smells, and barkie and her Mom are bustling thither and yon making up plates of sweet-smelling concoctions, salads and sausage and a huge turkey in the oven covered with fat bacon strips, and there is lovely rhythmic African world music playing n the itunes, and we are awaiting guests, and all is right with the world in this very moment in space and time; Mumbai and the economic chaos notwithstanding.


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