Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
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He smiled in the kindest way it was possible to smile at people known only professionally.
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If I am buried in this country I will be thanked, no doubt, at my funeral.”
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“Exactly, Eliot, exactly like a wedding ring. Only with no fear of losing it in the dishwater.”
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I learned that Americans drove on the right side of the road, not the left, and that they called a lift an elevator and an engaged phone busy.
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My son always expresses his astonishment, not at Mrs. Croft’s age, but at how little I paid in rent, a fact nearly as inconceivable to him as a flag on the moon was to a woman born in 1866.