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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 67: The Name
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In the early weeks I became aware of an absence at the very centre of the house, a small hole in the language where a word should have been, and the word was the one Kabir did not have for us. He had moved in. He ate at our table and slept, eventually, in the bed, and rode the metro on the weekends with me and learned the grain of cloth from Saloni; he was, by every practical measure, living with his parents. But he had no name for us, and the not-having was a live thing in the flat…
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