“That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.”

—  Jhumpa Lahiri , book Unaccustomed Earth

Source: Unaccustomed Earth

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Short story writer, novelist 1967

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