Dear lk09,

good to hear from you! I am fine, thank you. I am glad you’re happy in your own company, dancing and making plans for writing again. It’s also great your old friends have reached out, making a note that you’ve been hiding in your shell before, but now you’re opening up…

I do wish you to “survive” the ceremony tomorrow… I guess your presence won’t be needed, since only the male members participate? I also understand you don’t like traditional weddings, with such expensive gifts and all the “pomp and circumstance”… I guess I’d be intimated as well…

So try to keep cool as much as you can, and please do take care, specially having in mind the surge of infections in India.. how’s your friend’s father, who was in hospital?