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My friend Shweta visited me last weekend. Her daughter was graduating from the CIA (the chef school, not the spy group), and she flew in from New Delhi for the graduation. It was her first time traveling internationally, alone. Over the weekend, she shared with me that if it weren’t for me, she would not have had the courage to make this trip all by herself.

She was born in Nepal, grew up in Kathmandu, and after marrying her husband via…