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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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