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Until Next Time
As this is not the last goodbye; I want many more goodbyes with you
“I will be back before you know it”, he said as he kissed me on the forehead. Just like he always did since I was a little girl.
It was how he had said goodbye to a crying 12-year-old me when he left for college to pursue his medicine. And it is how he had said his final goodbye to me when he left for a charity event in a nearby village a day before my daughter’s wedding.
30 years had passed but nothing had changed. He was still the protective loving older brother to me, as he had always been.
Never in a million years would have thought it was his final goodbye.
We all have heard the quote “A single phone call can change everything”, but I personally had always found it to be a little too exaggerated.
It was something that writers used to put drama in their movies, or immature teenagers shared on their social media when they needed a bit of attention.
But it was true. Nothing had ever meant more than those words. A single phone call had changed my life forever. And that too in a way I had never anticipated in my worst nightmare.
It was the night before my daughter’s wedding. The girls had partied out late and had finally just…
