Tiny Love Stories: ‘She Noticed His Stylish Shoes’
A Surprise Suitor 1965, Calcutta. My 22-year-old mother had rejected several promising suitors who met the requirements of caste and class. “Meet this next one,” her mother begged. “Please.
He’s come from Geneva, Switzerland.” En route to a party, Mother quickly dismissed the prospective bridegroom waiting on her family’s sofa.
But in her brief, perfumed passage through the living room, she noticed his stylish shoes. And his smile. She agreed to see him again.
My father was sweet, gentle. Two weeks after meeting, they married. Then, they flew to Geneva, where they’ve lived more or less happily ever after for 59 years. — Savita Iyer Ahrestani Who Would Have Thought? “Does this mean you want to become a man?” my mother asked me in 2002 when she met my partner, Rachel, a transgender woman.
