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a love song: 'I have loved you for a thousand years, I will love you for<br />

a thousand more.'<br />

A waiter came up to me to take my order. I told him I had to leave<br />

for some urgent work. I stood up.<br />

'By the way, do you have other female singers here?’ I said.<br />

‘A couple of them.They alternate.’<br />

‘Anybody who looks Indian?'<br />

'I couldn’t tell, sir,’ the waiter said. Americans don't like to take a<br />

shot at answering questions they don’t know—unlike Indians, who<br />

pretty much know everything about everything.<br />

‘Tall, really pretty girl who looks Indian?'<br />

‘No, sir. Only two black singers, and two Caucasian ones.’<br />

Even at midnight, on a weekday, the place was packed, Everyone<br />

around me seemed incredibly happy.They clinked glasses and laughed<br />

at jokes. They probably didn't know of Bihar’s existence. Neither<br />

would they know how it felt to love someone for a thousand years, as<br />

the singer crooned.<br />

I did.

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