“He is with me not for what I know, but for what I have been taught: since girlhood, I have been trained to be with him, to raise men by rote and ritual, to fry air into dough for them, to fast for their longevity, to scrub bedpans in times of their illness. This is the extent of me, Ashok thinks, and sometimes I too will tether my body to his belief in my own ignorance, because it exempts me from the burden of my own want.”

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