The vilest of atrocities committed in the name of society couldn't even compare to the ones committed by one's own parents being driven by it. Parents are often those people who, even when the world could fall against, they will be there to fall back on. But when the very same parents refuse to understand your own plight?

sanaya sat on the phone in the hotel room, listening to her mother, very patiently and lovingly, very sweetly, explaining to her about what a life of a widower should have been like. sanaya couldn't blame her, that was what she was taught, but only if she used the same love and tone with her to tell her how proud she was of her for deciding to live even when all forces were trying to kill her?