A Woman of Two Countries, Belonging to None
Ah, to be a young woman in love, seeing your future in the eyes of your lover. Love conquers all! I am glad she didn’t know the things she would have to leave behind, the things that would be lost. She only saw the adventure on the horizon. Neither of our families had much money, just typical middle class families. We had enough and a bit more. My parents gave us some money for the Christian wedding in the US and we added to it so that we had the wedding we wanted. Hubby’s parents paid for the entire Jain ceremony, in India, three months later. We considered ourselves, very married. A year later, we told my family we were moving to India for a year maybe three. My husband is an only child and he wanted to make sure his parents were OK. Did he know that it would be longer than three years? I choose to believe that he lied to himself as well as me . We arrived in Delhi just before Christmas, I’ve never understood why I agreed t