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One Way Journeys

“Dad, what’s a one way ticket? “. It came up while reading a book and you asked me casually. I explained the concept of the ticket itself and also how it generally meant a person leaving home to live somewhere else.  "Why can't they come back home?" you asked.  "Well they can, but by then they already have a home at the new place so really they aren't coming back home now" I tried to explain.  “ So you would have bought 3 one way tickets when you came to England from India, right ?” you reflected. “It wasn’t like that” I said, “I came alone initially and didn’t even realise that I was going to stay here forever.” “Did you marry Mumma after you came here?” you jumped onto the next  series of questions.  "No we were married before I came here" "You mean at the airport?" was your puzzled query. "Of course not ! We were married a few years before I came" I responded and  promised to answer all fu...