lau, badarni, welcome back! good to see you writing again! :) and rythm, thank you for writing- the part nirman highlighted was fantastic! ................. i moved out of my apartment on monday. my life in boxes. and in those boxes, memories of you.... as i cleaned under the bed, i found a bobbypin you wore in your hair. and with the sight of that, the memories came rushing back with the intensity of a california wildfire. and i envied that bobbypin, as it was once something that belonged to you. there was a time when i thought i too was yours. but there you are, thousands and thousands of miles away. immersing yourself in a new world, living a new life, speaking a new language. and your emails speak nothing of us. why is it that the more i remember.... the more you seem to forget?