Jean was a puzzle to me since the day we first met.

She is effortlessly beautiful and never lingers for longer than a second about the way she looks. She’d always wear black. In her book, there are blacks, lighter blacks and darker blacks.

When I was in India for the first year, I practically lived in the school’s Medical Centre. Going to classes by day, I would return to the Med by night and sleep in the same room with the nurses, so that

Every summer night, zillion of stars would rise, sparkle, twinkle, enlarge, then fall on top of the roof, next to the valley, by the swimming pool, up the AQ hill, and on the Wada’s open stairs.