Dear Satya:

Good to read from you, it has been a while and a time when the pandemic  in India escalated terribly. Last you posted was March 20, the very day when the number of new cases was 43.8 thousand, and the new deaths on that day were 196. These numbers shot up to a record high of over 414 thousand new cases on May 6, and a record high of 4,525 new deaths in May 18. Good to see that the number of daily cases and daily deaths went down since, but the numbers are still high.  I am sorry to read that your aunt died of Covid. I hope your cousins who tested positive recover. Please do keep yourself as safe possible.

Thank you for wishing me well- I was vaccinated back in March and it feels good to be vaccinated. I hope you get vaccinated as soon as possible. I hope everyone gets vaccinated, everywhere in the world.

You wrote that you are doing some soul searching and that you are considering referring to this man “as something else than BF”- tell me more, if you’d like, about your soul-searching and how things are with him now.

anita