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“Don’t worry, I doubt
whether Grandpa can hear
me. He doesn’t hear too
well, or see too well, or even
remember too well these days.
I’m glad that your holidays
have started from today.
Now you can look after
stopped and shuddered at
the memory.
It was only last month that
Ravi’s Grandpa had come to
live with them because he was getting too old to
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Grandpa having to be admitted to the hospital
because he absent-mindedly took a double dose
of his medicines, and then gave them several
anxious moments when he got lost on one occasion
he went for a walk and forgot the way back home.
Grandpa had got very upset when his daughter,
Ravi’s mother, insisted that he shouldn’t go out
alone again. “I’ll have you know, Vidya, my dear,”
he had told his daughter with a trace of the
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a lawyer, “that I’ve been looking after myself for
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mother died ten years ago, I took over her duties
as well and have been cooking, shopping and
keeping house too. First you force me to come
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horrible, crowded city and then you think you
have the right to forbid me to go out on my own!”
Grandpa hated the noise and bustle of
city life and when they were on their own, he
often spoke, longingly, of his small brick house
bustle:
busy activity
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