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Why couldn’t Sanjay wait for another two days
when he waited for so long? Lamented my daughter even as she was
reading the paper ,an exercise she normally avoided.
Which Sanjay are you referring to , your
cousin or your friend and what he should have waited for? I
asked.
Neither, I am talking about Sanjay Dutt and
his girl friend , Mannyata to whom he got married just two days
ago, she informed.
Thank God, now they are a couple , I
observed.
But mummy, it would have been better if they
had got married on Valentine’s Day , said Kirtana.
What difference would that have made to
either of them? I said.
A lot. Don’t you know the significance of
Valentine’s Day? It’s the day when lovers present each other
with the most invaluable gifts as proof of their love, explained
my daughter.
Oh, is it? I said feigning ignorance. For all
I know Sanjay must have been presenting gifts to his ladylove
for the past so many years, I added.
That’s why I thought if he had waited to tie
the knot for another two days, the couple could celebrate their
wedding anniversary on every Valentine’s Day, she said .
Kirtana, I am sure Sanjay was not as
thoughtful as you. He would have had the Saint’s Blessings as
well , I concurred with her.
What has Valentine’s Day to do with a Saint
mummy ? Its a Day to celebrate Love and spend the day together
and have lots and lots of fun and perhaps eventually marry the
man or woman you love if you so decide , She enlightened me.
Everything, I suppose , if you go by the
legend, I stated.
What legend? I don’t think a Saint would have
known anything about Love, she guffawed I wanted to tell her it
was she who knew nothing about the” real” significance of
Valentine’s Day , the Day that was named after the Saint
Valentine who is believed to have written a letter before he
died to the girl he loved which he signed “from your Valentine”
,an expression in vogue till today.
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