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is curd rice as if the smell of the food has filled us already, made us slightly
nauseous like guests having eaten at a wedding party. With the songs, the
smells, the heat, the chatter we have created a mini India on 101, Lakecrest Drive.
On the first Saturdays of the month I clean the bathroom, the next Shagun
deos it and after that Madhu. Madhu brings in the mail everyday. I sort it out.
Shagun gets mail sheʹs not interested in: credit card offers and sweepstakes
tickets. Madhu gets Popular Science magazines and receipts for the money she
sends her parents every month. We send three different checks every month to
the rental office. Like three girls who are playing house‐house we have neatly
divided our work and as if we are living out our childhood games. Madhu is the
one who maximises everything — figuring out that three people can share phone
bills and Netflix bills and three connections of high speed internet. We
sometimes watch Netflix movies one after another, from morning till evening
like the video cassette craze, back home, when people sat up the entire night
watching three Bollywood movies one after another with relatives and
neighbors. We sigh over cute professors, talk about our families, gossip about
other students.
We are sarcastic when Shagun forgets her turn to clean the bathroom.
Each waits for the other to open the door when the doorbell rings. We leave
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