From: Kamal E Y [email protected]>

To: Sabrina [email protected] >

Sent: 6 September, 1999 04:47 PM

Subject: Wait for my call

Dear Sabrina,

Yeah! I will call you up this week. I will tell you the exact date tomorrow. The phone bill will be expensive, but what the heck, I am spending all my money useless. This will be worth the money spent. Can you tell me the time (our time) you will be in the house? It will be around 7 or7:30PM, right? How to speak and all is no problem. I just want to hear your voice that is all. And a kiss through the phone!

I have tried to think of coming to your country. Getting a job may not be difficult. Why I want to go to the US is because software engineers are paid very highly there. India is the leading software exporter in the world. Our educational qualifications and degrees are very much valued in other countries. Almost all the software giants, including Microsoft and Sun, has their offices in India. Europe or the US will be ideal to make money. Sitting at home and taking contract assignment is not profitable.

I have tried to think about how we will meet and how we will live. But always I ended up with utter confusion. So I just left it the way it is. Do you think I am mature and old enough to marry now? Before meeting you, I thought I will marry at the age of 27. Now it is difficult, I know. I have started to think of life seriously only after we met and opened our hearts. Thinking of being with you, I am getting excited...my darling, I want you very much.

Our impression of India is not complete. The Bollywood films are utter crap. Don't ever try to judge the Indian Film industry by these films. They have nothing to tell but some cheap love and some sentiments. They are not the India film industry. If you get a chance try to see Satyajit Ray's or Aravindan's or Adoor Gopala Krishnan's or Shaji N Karun's films. Or maybe RajKapoor films. Then you'll get a good idea of how is the art film industry in India. I don't like to go to Bollywood films. Utter crap!

I don't know why today I am feeling too close to you. Like never before. Maybe because your phone number is here. But no, today I am thinking of you all the time. I am getting your smell. Your silken smoothness, everything. Maybe delirium. I don't know.

I want to call you today, but we have to fix the time, right? So tell me in the next letter, the time and date. And wait for my reply too. I will confirm it. And my sweetie, get ready for the kisses!

You have given me a lot to think about. I will think it over. My fever hasn't come down. But now the temperature is Ok. Maybe your body has absorbed all the heat yesterday night!

And what should I say? I can't stop loving you? I have never stopped loving you and I will never will!

The guy you loved is with you now. That is not good news for me! Ok, shall I ask why didn't you tell him? You loved him before meeting me, right? Did he propose to you? I am feeling jealous!!!

So my sweetheart, wait for my call. This week we are going to get closer, closer than ever!

Lots of kisses

Kamal