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Aishwarya Kapoor

The Money You Send Home Every Month Carries Love, Guilt, and the Words You Never Say

The Transfer Is the Sentence

You do it on the same day every month. Sometimes the first. Sometimes whenever your salary clears. You open the app, you type the number, and for a second you look at it, that figure, before you press confirm. The money leaves your account and arrives in your parents' account in minutes. Faster than a phone call. Faster than finding the right words.Your mother will text: received. Sometimes a thank you. Sometimes just a thumbs up, which is somehow worse.The remittance is not the thing you want to say. It is what you say instead.

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