Silver Years Of Love

To,

The silver couple,

I was 5 years old, sitting in front of the mirror, dressed in a hand-stitched ghagra by my mother and posing like a little bride, I still have that picture with me. Maa, that time I don't know what my thoughts were but I just wanted to be as beautiful as you.

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I was 13 years old when dad started dropping me at the nearby bus stop to travel school 8 km away, alone. I was nervous, given an old Nokia phone for security. It was an adventure every day to secretly carry a phone to school. Since then I keep calling my father for tiniest of troubles in life. Papa, you have given birth to a warrior daughter, I didn't understand then how much strength you saw in the twinkle of my eyes.

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It's been 25 years, 25 long years and you both have been in love since forever it seems. Maa's school routine cannot be complete without Dad serving tea just in time and reminding about medicines. Similarly, Papa can never leave home unless Maa serves him a wholesome breakfast. His day is incomplete without teasing Maa and lying that he got vegetables at just two rupees lower than her with smirks!

To the couple who has tread through happiness and sorrows, through golden and blue days, through triumphs and disasters with interlocked fingers and warm hearts filled with kindness and love, what more do I wish for you, when you are like silver lining of my life.