November 7. “Button, name five things you love.”

“Dark Lindt chocolates, bhel, fish…”

“All of it doesn’t have to be about food!”

“Long car rides and you.”

“That’s cute. Do you know we played this game to get badididi to tell us about 5 things she’d like so we could gift her something from that wish list for her birthday?”

“I was there. And what are the five things that you would list?”

“A book contract from a reputed publisher who would publish The Button Diaries, a small cottage with an attached tea estate in Coorg, a trip to the best wild life sanctuary, maybe Tanzania, where I could play with some of the lions,  a horse ranch and…”

“What’s the fifth?”

“I couldn’t think of a fifth wish.”

“By the way, did the trick work with badididi?”

“It did because Dost as well as my younger daughter gifted her stuff from her list.”