{"id":1594,"date":"2010-05-11T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T07:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swatisani.net\/blog\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2010-05-11T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T07:22:07","slug":"16-years-to-that-hot-sweaty-happy-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/11\/16-years-to-that-hot-sweaty-happy-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"16 years to that hot, sweaty, happy afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"At Banni Grasslands\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/swatisani\/4597482517\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   aligncenter\" title=\"At Banni Grasslands\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1325\/4597482517_ddc55b5931.jpg\" alt=\"At Banni Grasslands\" width=\"450\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tere bin sanu sonya koi hor naiyo labhna<br \/>\njo deve ruh ko sukun chukke jo  nakhra mera&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was 11.30 AM, we had finished signing that register, but it did not sink in till we sat together in the gypsy with my father-in-law and an aunt that we are now married. It had taken us a lot to get our folks to agree to us getting married. We were exhausted and ecstatic and we so desperately wanted to talk, and since we were not alone, we talked of share market, RSI and moving averages for the 10 minutes it took us to reach home.\u00a0 Talk is what we did when we got our first private moment together the same evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We wrote long letters to each other every single day before we got married (I was working in Bombay, he was in Nagpur).\u00a0 Even today,\u00a0 there are times when we sit together in the same room without a spoken word, but we still communicate.\u00a0 Thank you sweetheart, for listening to my suggestion when you did, that summer of 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tere bin sanu sonya koi hor naiyo labhna jo deve ruh ko sukun chukke jo nakhra mera&#8230; It was 11.30 AM, we had finished signing that register, but it did not sink in till we sat together in the gypsy with my father-in-law and an aunt that we are now married. 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