Summary of A Grasshoppers Pilgrimage
The thrilling new blockbuster from the international bestselling author
Mason “Mace” Perry was a maverick cop on the D.C. police force until she was
kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything—her career, her
liberty—and spent two years in prison. Now back on the outside, Mace is trying
to rebuild her life and track down the people who set her up. But even with her
police chief sister at her side, she has to work in the shadows: there’s a
vindictive US attorney on her tail and she’s just looking for a reason to send
her back behind bars . . .
Roy Kingman is a young lawyer, still getting used to his high-paid job at a law
firm in Washington. When Roy discovers the dead body of a female partner at the
firm, his fate becomes entangled with Mace’s, as the two team up to investigate.
But as their enquiries gather pace, Roy and Mace soon find themselves in
unexpected territory; drawn into both the private and public world of the
nation’s capital, as dark secrets begin to emerge. For what began as a fairly
routine homicide investigation will quickly turn into something far more
complex. And possibly lethal . . .
Excerpts from True Blue
Chapter 1
Jamie Meldon rubbed his eyes vigorously, but when he stared back at the computer
screen it was still no good. He glanced at his watch; nearly two in the morning.
He was toast. At age fifty he couldn't pull these all-nighters consistently
anymore. He slipped on his jacket and pushed back his thinning hair where it had
drifted down to his forehead.
As he packed his briefcase he thought about the voice from out of the past. He
shouldn't have, but he'd called; they'd talked. Then they'd met. He didn't want
that part of his life dredged up again. Yet he would have to do something. He'd
been in private practice for nearly fifteen years, but now represented Uncle
Sam. He would sleep on it. That always helped.
A decade ago he'd been a hotshot and highly paid criminal defense attorney in
New York, legally hand-holding some of the sleaziest of Manhattan's underworld.
It had been an exhilarating time in his career, and also represented his lowest
point. He'd lost control of his life, been unfaithful to his wife, and become
someone he'd grown to loathe.
When his wife had been told that she had perhaps six months to live, something
had finally clicked in Meldon's brain. He'd resurrected his marriage and helped
his spouse beat a death sentence. He'd moved the family south, and for the last
ten years, instead of defending criminals, he was sending them to prison.
Everything about that felt right, even if his financial circumstances weren't
nearly as rosy.
He left the building and headed home. Even at two a.m. there was life in the
nation's capital, but once he got off the highway and rode through the surface
streets toward his neighborhood it grew quiet and he grew more drowsy. The blue
grille lights flashing off his rearview mirror jolted him to alertness. They
were in a straightaway not a half mile from his house, but one bordered on both
sides by trees. He pulled off the road and waited. His hand slid to his wallet
where his official credentials were contained. He was worried that he'd dozed
off or been driving erratically because he was so tired.
He saw the men coming toward the car. Not uniforms, but suits, dark ones that
made their starched white shirts stand out under the three-quarter moon. Each
man was about six feet tall with an athletic build, clean-shaven face, and short
hair, at least that he could make out under the moonlight. His right hand
gripped his cell phone and he punched in 911 and kept his thumb poised over the
call key. He rolled the window down and was about to hold up his official creds
when one of the other men beat him to it.
"FBI, Mr. Meldon. I'm Special Agent Hope, my partner Special Agent Reiger."
Meldon stared at the ID card and then watched as the man flicked his hand and
the familiar FBI shield appeared on the next slot in the leather holder. "I
don't understand, what's this about, Agent Hope?"
"E-mails and phone calls, sir."
"With whom?"
"We need you to come with us."
"What? Where?"
"WFO."
"The Washington Field Office? Why?"
"Questioning," Hope replied.
"Questioning? About what?"
"We were just told to make the pickup, Mr. Meldon. The assistant director is
waiting to talk to you."
"Can't it wait until tomorrow? I'm a United States attorney."
Hope looked put off. "We are fully aware of your background. We are the FBI."
"Of course, but I still—"
"You can call the AD if you want, sir, but our orders were to bring you in
ASAP."
Meldon sighed. "That's all right. Can I follow you in my car?"
"Yep, but my partner here has to ride with you."
"Why?"
"Having a highly trained agent riding shotgun for you is never a bad thing, Mr.
Meldon."
"Fine." Meldon slipped his phone back in his pocket and unlocked the passenger
door. Agent Reiger climbed in next to him while Hope walked back to his car.
Meldon pulled in behind the other car and they started on their route back to
D.C.
"I wish you guys could have come to my office. I just came from town."
Reiger kept his gaze on the other car. "Can I ask why you're out this late,
sir?"
"As I mentioned, I was at my office, working."
"Sunday night, this late?"
"It's not a nine-to-five job. Your partner mentioned phone calls and e-mails.
Was he inferring ones that I made or received?"
"Maybe neither."
"What?" Meldon snapped.
"The Bureau's intel division gets chatter and scuttlebutt all the time from the
dirtbag world. It might be that someone you prosecuted wants payback. And we
understand that when you were in private practice in New York you did not leave
on the best of terms with some of your, uh, clientele. It could be coming from
that sector."
"But that was a decade ago."
"The mob has a long memory."
Meldon suddenly looked fearful. "I want protection for my family if there's some
nut out there gunning for me."
"We already have a Bucar with two agents stationed outside your house."
They crossed over the Potomac and into D.C. proper, and a few minutes later
neared the WFO. The lead car hung a left down an alley. Meldon pulled in behind
it.
"Why this way?"
"They just opened a new underground garage for us to use with a hardened tunnel
right into WFO. Quicker this way and under Bureau eyes 24/7. These days who the
hell knows who's watching? Al-Qaeda to the next Timothy McVeigh."
Meldon looked at him nervously. "Got it."
Those were the last words Jamie Meldon would ever speak.
The massive electric shock paralyzed him even as a large foot stomped down on
the car's brake. If Meldon had been able to look over he would've seen that
Reiger was wearing gloves. And those gloves were curled around a small black box
with twin prongs sticking out. Reiger climbed out of the car as a twitching
Meldon slumped over.
The other car had stopped up ahead and Hope ran back to the second car. Together
they lifted Meldon out and leaned him face first against a large Dumpster.
Reiger pulled out his pistol with a suppressor on the muzzle. He stepped
forward, placed the barrel against the back of Meldon's head, and fired one
round, ending the man's life.
Together they heaved the body into the Dumpster. Reiger climbed into the dead
attorney's car. He followed his partner's ride out of the alley, turned left,
and then headed north while Meldon's corpse finished sinking into the garbage.
Reiger pushed a speed dial button on his phone. It was answered after one ring.
Reiger said, "Done." Then he clicked off and slipped the phone back in his
pocket.
The man on the other end of the phone did likewise.
Jarvis Burns, his heavy briefcase pressing against his bad leg, struggled to
catch up to the rest of the party as they headed across the tarmac, up the metal
steps, and into the waiting aircraft.
Another man with white hair and a heavily lined face turned back to look at him.
He was Sam Donnelly, the Director of National Intelligence, which essentially
made him America's top spy.
"Everything okay, Jarv?"
"Perfect, Director," said Burns.
Ten minutes later Air Force One rose into the clear night air on its way back to
Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
*Chapter 2*
Sixty-eight… sixty-nine… seventy."
Mace Perry's chest touched the floor and then she rose up for the last rep of
push-ups. Both of her taut triceps trembled with this max effort. She stretched
out, greedily sucking in air as sweat looped down her forehead, then flipped
over and started her stomach crunches. One hundred. Two hundred. She lost count.
And next came leg lifts; her six-pack ridges were screaming at her after five
minutes and still she kept going, driving through the pain.
Pull-ups were next. She could do seven when she got here. Now she lifted her
chin over the bar twenty-three times, the muscles in her shoulders and arms
bunching into narrow cords. With one final shout of endorphin-fueled fury, Mace
stood and started running around the large room, once, twice, ten times, twenty
times. With each lap, the lady increased her speed until her tank shirt and
shorts were soaked through to her skin. It felt good and it also sucked because
the bars were still on the windows. She couldn't outrun them, not for three more
days anyway.
She picked up an old basketball, bounced it between her legs a few times, and
then drove to the hoop, which was a netless basket hung on a makeshift backboard
bolted to one wall. She sank the first shot, a layup, and then paced off fifteen
feet to the left, turned, and sank a jumper. She moved around the floor, set up,
and nailed a third shot, and then a fourth. For twenty minutes she hit jump shot
after jump shot, focusing on her mechanics, trying to forget where she was right
now. She even imagined the roar of the crowd as Mace Perry scored the winning
basket, just as she had done in the high school state championship game her
senior year.
Later, a deep voice growled, "Trying out for the Olympics, Perry?"
"Trying for something," said Mace as she dropped the ball, turned, and stared at
the large uniformed woman facing her, billy club in hand. "Maybe sanity."
"Well, try and get your ass back to your cell. Your buff time's up."
"Okay," said Mace automatically. "I'm going right now."
"Medium security don't mean no security. You hear me!"
"I hear you," said Mace.
"You ain't here much longer, but your ass is still my turf. Got that?"
"Got it!" Mace jogged down the hall that was enclosed by stacked cement blocks
painted gunmetal gray, just in case the residents here weren't depressed enough.
The corridor ended at a solid metal door with a square cutout at the top as a
viewpoint. The guard on the other side pushed a button on a control panel and
the steel portal clicked open. Mace passed through. Cement blocks, tubular
steel, hard doors with tiny windows out of which angry faces peered. Clicks to
go. Clicks to get back in. Welcome to incarceration for her and her fellow three
million Americans who enjoyed the luxury of government housing and three squares
for free. All you needed to do was break the law.
When she saw who the guard was she muttered one word. "Shit." He was an older
guy, fifties, with pale, sickly skin, a beer belly, no hair, creaky knees, and a
smoker's caustically cracked lungs. He'd obviously switched posts with the other
guard who'd been stationed here when Mace had come through for her workout, and
Mace knew why. He'd developed an eye for her, and she spent much of her time
ducking him. He'd caught her a few times and not one of the encounters had been
pleasant.
"You got four minutes to shower before chow, Perry!" he snapped.
He moved his bulk into the narrow passageway she had to navigate through.
"Done it faster," she said as she tried and failed to dart past him.
He spun her around and leaned his heft against her while she braced herself with
her palms against the wall. He shoved his fat size twelve boots under the flimsy
soles of her size sixes; now Mace was on her tiptoes with her back arched. She
felt the brush and then grip of his meaty hand on her butt as he pulled her to
him, doggie-style. He'd managed to position them both in the one blind spot of
the overhead security camera.
"Little patdown time," he said. "You ladies hide shit everywhere, don't you?"
"Do we?"
"I know your tricks."
"Like you said, I only got four minutes."
"I hate your kind," he breathed into her ear.
Camels and Juicy Fruit are quite a combo. He slid a hand across her chest,
squeezing hard enough to make her eyes water.
"I hate your kind," he said again.
"Yeah, I can really tell," she said.
"Shut up!"
One of his fingers probed up and down the cleft of her butt through her shorts.
"There's no weapon in there, I swear."
"I said shut up!"
"I just want to go take a shower." Now, more than ever.
"I bet you do," he said in his gravelly rumble. "I just bet you do." One hand
riding on her right hip, the other on her butt, he shoved his boots farther
under her heels. It was like she was tottering on four-inch stilettos now. What
she wouldn't have given for a stiletto, just not the shoe kind.
She closed her eyes and tried to think of anything other than what he was doing
to her. His pleasures were relatively simple: cop a feel or rub his hard-on
against a chick when he got the chance. In the outside world this sort of
conduct would've earned him a minimum of twenty years on the other side of these
bars. Yet inside here it was classic he-said, she-said, and no one would believe
her without some DNA trace. That's why Beer Belly only pantomimed it through the
clothes. And throwing a punch at the bastard would earn her another year.
When he was done he said, "You think you're something, don't you? You're Inmate
245, that's who you are. Cell Block B. That's who you are. Nothing more."
"That's who I am," said Mace as she straightened her clothes and prayed for an
early diagnosis of lung cancer for Beer Belly. What she really wanted was to
pull a gun and lay his brains-on the off chance he had any-against the gray
walls.
In the showers she scrubbed hard and rinsed fast, something you just innately
did in here. She'd already experienced her initiation in here after only two
days. She'd busted the woman's face. The fact that she'd avoided solitary or
time tacked on had not endeared Mace to her fellow inmates. They simply tagged
her as a privileged bitch, and that was about as bad as it could get in a place
where your cell rep defined every right you had or didn't have. Nearly two years
later she was still standing, but she wasn't exactly sure how.
She hustled on, every minute now precious, as she counted down her time to
freedom, with both anticipation and dread, because on this side of the wall
nothing was guaranteed except misery.
*Chapter 3*
A few minutes later a wet-haired Mace walked through the chow line and received
her basic food groups so crapped and fatted up that in any other place-except
possibly high school cafeterias and airline coach class-they would be deemed
inedible. She swallowed enough of the garbage to keep from passing out from
hunger and rose from her seat to throw the rest away. As she passed by one table
a drumstick of a calf shot out and she fell over it, her tray clattering away,
the goop on it painting the floor a nice greenish brown.
Up and down the perimeter line, guards tensed. The inmate who'd done the
tripping, a prisoner named Juanita, glanced down as Mace slowly got to her feet.
"You a clumsy bitch," said Juanita. She looked at her crew who sat all around
the queen bee Juanita had become in here. "Ain't she a clumsy bitch?"
Every member of Juanita's crew agreed Mace was the clumsiest bitch ever born.
Juanita carried two-hundred-and-fifty-plus pounds on a wide six-foot frame, with
each hip the size and shape of a long-haul truck's mud flap. Mace was five-six,
about one-fifteen. On the surface Juanita was soft, mushy; Mace was as hard as
the steel doors that kept all the bad girls inside this place. Yet Juanita could
still crush her. She'd landed here after a sweetheart plea deal for murder in
the second in which her tools had included a tire iron, a Bic lighter, and lots
of accelerant.
It was said that she liked this place much better than she ever had her world on
the outside. In here Juanita was queen bee. Out there she was just another GED-less
fat chick to punch the hell out of, courier drugs and guns through, or make
babies with before the man abandoned her. Outside prison Mace had known a
thousand Juanitas. She was doomed from the moment she'd tumbled from the womb.
That might have explained why Juanita had done enough crazy stuff inside here,
including two aggravated assaults and a weapons and drugs bust, to tack twelve
more years onto her original sentence. At that rate the woman would be here
until they hauled her carcass out and slipped it into a potter's field
somewhere. Her fat and bones would soon fertilize the earth and no one would
either care or remember her.
However, that left the living woman with nothing to lose, and that's precisely
what made her so dangerous, because it carved normal societal inhibitors right
out of her brain pattern. That one factor turned mush to titanium. No matter how
many reps or laps Mace did, she could never match what Juanita had. Mace still
had compassion, still had remorse. Juanita no longer had either, if she ever
did.
Mace held the fork ready. Her gaze drifted for a moment to Juanita's wide hand
planted flat on the table, orange nail polish muted against her skin that was
obscured only by a tattoo of what looked to be a spider. An obvious target, the
hand.
Not tonight. I already two-stepped with Beer Belly. I'm not dancing with you
too.
Mace kept walking and slid her tray and utensils into the dirty bin.
Only as she was leaving did she glance over at Juanita, to find the woman still
watching her. Keeping her gaze dead on Mace, Juanita whispered something to one
of her crew, a gangly lily white named Rose. Rose was in here for nearly
decapitating her husband's sexy plaything in a bar restroom using the gutting
knife hubby kept for his fish catches. Mace had heard that the husband hadn't
come to Rose's trial, but only because he was so upset she'd ruined his best
blade. It was definitely more the stuff of Jerry Springer retro than Oprah couch
chatter.
Mace watched as Rose nodded and grinned, showing the nineteen teeth she had
remaining in her gaping mouth. It was hard to believe she was perhaps once a
little girl playing dress-up, sitting on her father's knee, forming her cursive
letters, cheering at a high school football game, dreaming about something other
than one hundred and eighty months in a cage playing second fiddle to a bloated
queen bee with the mental makeup of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Rose had visited Mace on the second day she'd been here and told her that
Juanita was the messiah and what the messiah wanted, she got. When the cell door
opened and the messiah appeared, she would like it. Those were the rules. That
was just the way it was in Juanita Land. Mace had declined Juanita's offer
several times. And before things had truly gotten out of hand, Juanita had
suddenly backed off. Mace thought she knew why but wasn't sure. Yet it had led
to two years of fighting for her life every day, using her wits, her street
smarts, and her newly found muscle.
Mace trudged to Cell Block B and the doors slammed into place behind all of them
at precisely seven p.m. So much for another exciting Sunday night. She sat on
the steel bed with a mattress so thin laid over it that Mace could almost see
right through the damn thing. Over the two years she'd slept on it her body had
absorbed every buckle and bend in the old metal. She had three more days to go.
Well, now really only two, if she made it through the night.
Juanita knew when Mace was getting out. That's why she'd tripped her, tried to
bait her. She didn't want Mace to leave. So Mace sat in her cell, crouched into
a hard, tight wedge in the corner. Her fists were clenched and there was
something shiny and sharp in each one of them that she kept hidden in a place
not even the guards could find. The darkness came and then strengthened into the
time of night when you figured nothing much good was going to happen because the
evil that was coming scared all the good away. And then she waited some more.
Because she knew, at some point, her cell door would open as the guards on the
night shift looked the other way in consideration for drugs or sex, or both.
And the messiah would appear with one goal in mind: to never again let Mace
experience the light of a free day. For two years she'd been building herself up
for this moment. Her buffed body waited with anticipation as adrenaline pumped
with each exhalation of breath.
Three minutes later the cell door slid open, and there she was. Only it wasn't
Juanita.
This visitor was tall too, over six feet with the one-inch polished boots she
wore. And the uniform was not like that of the guards. She wore it well, not a
baggy part or dirt stain to be seen. The hair was blond and smelled good in a
way that no hair in here ever could.
The visitor took a step forward, and though it was dark, there was enough light
coming from somewhere out there that Mace could see the four stars on each
shoulder. There were eleven ranks in the District of Columbia Metropolitan
Police Department, and those four stars represented the highest one of them all.
Mace looked up, her hands still clenched, as the woman looked down.
"Hey, sis," said the D.C. chief of police. "What say we get you the hell out of
here?"
*Book Review*
There are two levels at which I would like to look at this book. The spiritual
and literary. At the spiritual level, the book leaves much to be desired. Its
honesty, though an admirable virtue of form, does not transcend to the content.
In fact, a kind of fictitious honesty, assertive of individual opinion or
personal manifestation, in matters spiritual, I have come to think, is quite
undesirable. It sets a bad precedent. The might of personal conviction/
interpretation has been defeating the scriptural wisdom for centuries, because
anything literal made to seem true goes down as literal truth.
Although the seeker in the book, as a character, succeeds beautifully; it’s the
person named Gopika, the path is flawed and the culmination reached is both
shallow and pretentious. The quest angle which is central to any pilgrimage or
journey lacks the sheer fire and force.
I have a healthy disregard for what I call wayside spiritual romance, a
misdemeanor committed even by those who can tell wheat from chaff. It is a
product of indulgence to which I too have been prone. But my regret is not that
the character wished it, my regret is that she landed into it quite
inadvertently.
There are such pure and fine and elevating moments in the book to be followed or
interfered by the truly banal. This is not to take away the charm of many
genuine things that have been portrayed. There are a few observations which make
a mark. The profound relation between a baby and God for instance! Few sentences
do well as to be quotable!
The book raises ideals: Arunachala, Raman Maharshi, Ramesh, Ramakrishna, Buddha
and so on. The passion, with which these have been painted, could well kindle
healthy curiosity in the readers for these hallowed personages. But the author
mixes these with some foreigners whose authenticity is questionable and
indistinct. Though these could have served as interesting props, their elevating
in the tale to chief dramatis personae results in an unfortunate and unwarranted
dilution of the marvelous candidness with which the seeker sets out to explore
the world of the spirit. The bona fide is mixed with the stray; this may be the
way of the eager beaver but not of a sadhak proper.
There will be some moderns, if a few, who will get interested in spirituality
because of this book.
Now let me come to the true appreciation. How did Manjushree manage to write
such a superbly lucid, astonishingly fluent narrative? Not a single compound
sentence! What a triumph! She must take credit for the breakthrough style. It’s
such an easy read that one does not realize one has finished reading the book.
What Gulzar and Sandhu write on the cover bears a true testimony to this.
I also hand it to her for her literary unpretentiousness, her absolute lack of
forced erudition of which at least thousand and one writers are a victim. Call
it the mark of an excellent story-teller or simplicity of a true genius. A gift
that is so prominent that it hails from every page. I know for sure that gift of
simplicity is the same thing as profundity. Her writing has soul. It’s a soulful
writing, shorn of literary trappings or flourishes, in which most writers are so
wont to indulge. I suspect this is much more than an act of minimalism or
advertising abridgment. Here is a distillation as it were, which is so difficult
to practice but she has managed so well.
Manjushree's sense of visual is fantastic. Many descriptions in words are
startlingly visual, a gift she can surely work on and enrich. She is not
preachy, she is pithy. And it works!
If she can practice the economy she has demonstrated so well in form, also in
content, ruthlessly pruning the worthless substance, she shall be a master.
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Interview with Manjushree Abhinav
1. What do you remember as your earliest life experience?
My earliest life experience? It was a mountain in Shillong. I remember going
back to Shillong after one year, my father was posted there and we visited him
during our summer holidays, in the dark hours of the morning and looking out to
see if the mountain still exists! The yearning, the painful longing that comes
from loving a physical object, almost as much as we love our family, the seed of
bhakti, was planted by that mountain in Shillong.
Coincidentally, my blog is called Mountain, and my first novel, A Grasshopper's
Pilgrimage, is about a young woman falling in love with a Mountain!
2. If you were to re-write a literary classic, what one would it be and what
changes would you make?
Gone with the Wind! I wouldn't separate Scarlett and Rhett Butler. I am not
cruel. And it would still be a bestseller!
3. Should you separate the artist from the art? In other words, if the artist is
a creep in real life but makes beautiful art should his/her behavior detract
from the work?
I didn't get the latter part of this question. So let me rephrase it. Are there
any separations in this world? Any immovable lines? No!
And if a creep manages to produce beautiful works of art, he should look into
himself, because if he does some serious work of processing out the creep in
him, imagine what he will create!
4. Is there an environment where the creation of art is impossible? If so, what
is/would it be like?
Once, someone asked Safdar Hashmi (a revolutionary), 'Will there be singing in
the dark times?' and he answered, 'Yes, there will be singing of the dark
times.'
5. Can art survive in the global melt-down (both the effects of global warming
and economic melt-down)?
Do you know that the golden era of Hollywood, happened during the great
depression? Art will be the last breath. Because art is life.
6. Describe your writing world?
In my writing world there are many ghosts. My favorite is ofcource my muse. She
gets all quiet when I lose my temper. She is happy when I am happy. During the
novel writing months, she was very naughty, she often woke me up in the middle
of the night with a line, a twist, a scene or a song. I suspect that in her last
life my muse was a maid, she gets very exited when I cook and clean up.
Writing is never half as fun as when she is with me. In fact, I know she is with
me when writing happens without an effort (that does not mean without long empty
pauses).
Writing is in fact a meditation, by which I mean a happy, 'independent of
others', time. Others don't include the muse, or the ghosts. :)
7. What is the most important question a writer must ask him/her self?
'You are stronger than your strongest performance,' says Swami Nithyananda, my
present obsession. A writer needs to remind herself to look for herself in the
space between words.
Because the space is the womb, and a writer who is true must pay respect to the
source of all inspiration. Even the shopkeeper lights an agarbatti the first
thing when he opens shop in the morning, is it not?
For me the scale of a good writing session is the silence that pervades my being
after word.
8. Describe the things on your work desk?
An old model of a comp, a hand me down of hubby, a photo of a young sanyasi in
saffron with a blessing mudra, a photo of my Mountain, some CD's that need to be
sorted out, a book waiting to be read, dust, a half empty tea cup, that's it.
9. Have you ever written a love letter? What was it like and to whom was it
written?
I was once in love with an old man, eighty two years old. He is now ninety two,
and yes, I still have love for him.
He used to advice us seekers, 'Do whatever you like to do, for what you like is
what God wants you to like.'
Now, those days were of the first addiction. I couldn't get enough of Ramesh.
But he did not pay my bills. So I was torn into having to make a living and
wanting to spend all my mornings at his house.
So one morning, I took a detour (of an hour and a half) from my office, went to
him, and gave him this letter, enclosed with two five hundred rupee notes.
Dear Ramesh,
You keep saying that we should do what we like. Well, this is what I would like
to do.
I would like to clean your house, to wash your clothes, to cook for you and to
feed you.
But since that is not possible, please accept this money as a token of my
affection and let me go.
yours,
Manju
10. What are your favorite song lyrics?
Oh, if only I could sing to you...
I am that I am,
I am that I am.
Soham Shivoham,
Soham Shivoham
I hear the silence calling me,
So softly calling me.
I hear the silence calling me,
To the place where I have always been.
I am burning and burning,
I am burning and burning in your grace.
Surrender to thy Mystery,
Awaken to your Beauty...
I hear the silence calling me...
So softly calling me
I hear the silence calling me...
To the place where I have always been.
Soham Shivoham...
Soham Shivoham
I am that I am
11. What are you working on now?
I am committing suicide as far as literature goes. I am writing a biography of a
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