People don't get to choose their family, but if you have the family you would choose - that's happiness.
Once in a while we burned a wok trying to make our churan, and Jima, Bhanu, or another matriarch would banish us from the kitchen. __ou should__e told us,_ they__ say. __e would__e helped you._ You__e not getting it, Neela and I thought. This is our party and you__e not invited. To this day, the elder women of my household in Chennai still regard Neela or me with suspicion whenever we enter the kitchen to make anything other than tea. No matter that I host a cooking show or that Neela has raised two healthy daughters who clearly haven__ starved or been disfigured by a kitchen accident.
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Once in a while we burned a wok trying to make our churan, and Jima, Bhanu, or another matriarch would banish us from the kitchen. __ou should__e told us,_ they__ say. __e would__e helped you._ You__e not getting it, Neela and I thought. This is our party and you__e not invited. To this day, the elder women of my household in Chennai still regard Neela or me with suspicion whenever we enter the kitchen to make anything other than tea. No matter that I host a cooking show or that Neela has raised two healthy daughters who clearly haven__ starved or been disfigured by a kitchen accident.
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