HOUR 6<\/p>\n
SUNDAY MOVIES<\/p>\n
Nothing prepared me for college.<\/p>\n
I was a city girl<\/p>\n
who’d never left home.<\/p>\n
College was in a rural setting,<\/p>\n
eight hundred miles,<\/p>\n
and three states away.<\/p>\n
The highpoint of our lives<\/p>\n
were the weekly English movies,<\/p>\n
where we could meet<\/p>\n
young officers from the army base.<\/p>\n
In their presence,<\/p>\n
our walks had an extra sway,<\/p>\n
and hair was tossed around often.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
On such a Sunday,<\/p>\n
My two best friends and I<\/p>\n
were swaying and tossing,<\/p>\n
in our best clinging sarees,<\/p>\n
when a cow approached<\/p>\n
at a run<\/p>\n
straight at us.<\/p>\n
Without a second thought,<\/p>\n
one best friend and I ran and<\/p>\n
reached a ditch.<\/p>\n
With vulgarly hiked-up sarees,<\/p>\n
like synchronized gazelles,<\/p>\n
we sailed across to safety.<\/p>\n
When we looked around,<\/p>\n
our other best friend,<\/p>\n
was still running in front of the cow,<\/p>\n
screaming \u2018save me\u2019<\/p>\n
like a B-grade heroine.<\/p>\n
We couldn\u2019t control our amusement,<\/p>\n
while a gleeful officer pulled her away.<\/p>\n
The cow kept running.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t chasing us after all.<\/p>\n
It was just in a hurry.<\/p>\n
Later, I had just one best friend.<\/p>\n
And the Sunday movies were<\/p>\n
indefinitely postponed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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