Taking Candy From A Near-Stranger

Sometimes, it feels like the right thing to do

Gauri Sirur
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Published in
4 min readMar 23

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KitKat chocolate bar.
Credit: Gauri Sirur

Uma —

When R and I entered the breakfast area of our hotel in Alabama, I spotted the bespectacled, middle-aged Indian woman right away. She sat hunched up at a table in a booth near the wall. Her right foot hovered slightly off the side of the booth as if she were poised to leave.

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Gauri Sirur
Reciprocal

Reader, Writer, Dreamer. Mostly whimsical, sometimes serious, always nicheless.