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reception my wife and I were subjected to became obvious when in a
               course of 12 monthsthe girl and the boy separated legally !

               Invitation to visit Perth :

               Some time in May,2003 my wife and I got invitation in June 2003
               from my daughter and son in law in Perth to vist them for 3
               months.She was also mployed in the software major – Computer
               Associates for around 3 years.




               I am now a grandfather :

               While seeing our daughter after a lapse of  4 years gave us immense
               pleasure at the same time the pleasure was not without a tinge of
               sadness.It was seven years since her marriage took place ; but still
               we were despondent without a grand son or grand daughter.But the
               veil of sadness did not take too long to lift.In May 1997 the first
               tiding of happiness from Australia  lighted our life with joy.Our
               daughter has conceived and we may look forward to the new arrival
               some time in November of the year.  The date 16th November 2007
               deserves to be inscribed in gold.My daughter delivered a male child
               in a nursing home in Chennai.Again in 2014 my daughter delivered
               another male  child  on15th August.

               My son’s marriage :

               Now it ws almost ten years since my son ws settled in a job and it
               was high time he married.  After earnest effort over a period of a
               year I succeeded insecuring a match for myson and his marrige was
               celebrated on 15th May, 2009.But the event was not without its
               share of unhappiness.Is it not true that pleasure is a brief interlude
               between spells of pain.On the day previous to marriage my wife
               slipped and fell in the toilet damaging in the process her hip
               joint.She stoically bore the pain till the wedding was over and after
               bidding good-bye to the just married couple we admitted my wife in

               Isabel Hospital where a major surgery was performed on her and hip
               replacement was done.Till date her limp is a constant reminder of the




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