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 | | Talking about her forthcoming arranged marriage, the woman narrator in Divakaruni's short story "Meeting Mrinal" says to her dissenting woman friend, "Your mother got married this way and so did mine. |
 | | The occasion was the aunt's arranged marriage in Calcutta with an Indian emigrant who the matchmaker had assured her family was the owner of an automobile empire in America. |
 | | Mahesh, the narrator's husband, in "Meeting Mrinal," is struggling to leave her for his red-haired ex-secretary, Jessica, after a 20-year marriage (which initially had been of course an arranged marriage), a 17-year-old son, and a plush home in Silicon Valley: "I asked him again which outfit he wanted me to wear. |
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