I had a rather unnerving moment today with my daughter when she recounted an incident that happened a year back when she was all of two years old with alarming vividness that shocked me.
Here is what happened
Grandpa: தீபாவளி Saturdayஅன்னிக்கி வரபோரதே, அப்பா பட்டாசு எல்லாம் வாங்கி தருவாளே, நம்ம ஜாலியா வெடிக்கலாமே(Deepavali is just round the corner, appa is going to get you lots of sparklers and we are going to have fun!)
Daughter: ஆமா , அருந்ததி அக்காகூட வருவாளே, ஜெயந்தி அத்தை வீட்டுக்கு வருவாளே அவ! பட்டாசு வெச்சிட்டு காத முடிப்பா இல்ல ? ரோஹித் கூட அழுவானே !
(yeah! Arundhati will also come to Jayanthi Athai's place and she will close her ears to all the loud crackers! Even Rohit will cry for bursting his quota of crackers!)
We were all stunned to hear her say this, for among the host of hindu festivals, she correctly related the festival of lights by name t the one we had a year before and vividly recounted the incident where she met small girl (Arundhati) when we visited my sister on that day. She has never met Arundhati after that day!
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